In 1852, the mountain village in Provence where Violette lives is brutally deprived of all its men after the repression of the republicans ordered by Napoleon III. Women spend months in total isolation, desperate to see their men again. In this situation, they make an oath in case a man arrives in the village.
Violaine, a twenty-year-old young woman, spends her time photographing people in secret. One morning, when leaving her home, she discovers her neighbor, half dead. This event is going to upset her and to incite her to come out of her solitude to discover who is this man that she has probably saved.
