France, 1915. With the men off fighting the Great War, Hortense Sandrail and her daughter Solange now run the family farm. Unable to hire a male farmhand for the harvest, the Sandrails take on hardworking orphan Francine Riant. But when Hortense's son returns home on leave, a burgeoning romance with Francine upsets the new order. In French w/ English subtitles (user may need to turn subs on).