A French vineyard becomes a battlefield of petty cousins, suspicious bees, and a woman with secrets worth killing the irrigation for.
Pascal lives on the land in Provence that his father left him. He is supported by the Alibert family, his tenant farmers, to counter the maneuvers of his cousin Clodius who wants to compromise the irrigation of the vines or contaminate the beehives. It is in this atmosphere of suspicion that Geneviève returns to the country, charged with a mysterious past.
Acting
Michel Galabru's deliciously petty cousin Clodius
Cinematography
Sun-drenched lavender fields hiding rot beneath
Production
Authentic mas farmhouse you can practically smell
Director
Philomène Esposito
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Esposito cast actual Provencal farmers as background actors; the Alibert family dinner scenes were shot during real harvest season with genuine exhausted laborers.
The 'mas' itself—a fortified Provencal farmhouse—functions as a character representing dying post-war rural traditions being squeezed by modernization and family fracture.
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