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Minister Paul Guérande is alerted by his daughter Sophie that a certain Catherine, his brother Claude's mistress, abandoned by him, threatens to kill himself. He will urgently seek to reach his son to avoid the tragedy.

In Haute-Provence, two clans of rival peasants clash throughout the four seasons of a year. A young woodcutter, gone to the Rebeillard country to cut down trees, has not given a sign of life for several months. Anxious about this long absence, his father went off to look for him.