A chronicle of a group of friends in rural France between the wars. Garris and Riton live in the marshlands along the banks of the Loire river. Riton is afflicted with a bad-tempered wife and three unruly children. Garris lives alone with his recollections of World War I trenches. Their daily life consists of seasonal work and visits from their two pals: Tane, the local train conductor and Amédée, a dreamer and voracious reader of classics. Meanwhile, Garris is overwhelmed by an unspoken love for a housemaid in the town, Marie.
21 August 1948
28 January 1918, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, Seine [now Val-de-Marne], France
17 February 1946, Annecy, Haute-Savoie, France
24 January 1928, Brunoy, Essonne, France
February 6, 1951 in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France
28 May 1971, Paris, France
14 June 1914, Paris, France
19 February 1914, Bègles, Gironde, France
April 3, 1930 in Roubaix, France
November 16, 1957 in Granville, Manche, France
24 May 1966, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France

