In 1856, fresh from life with nuns in an orphanage school, Alexina Barbin comes to a coastal village in La Rochelle to teach the village girls. She...

A young man is checked into a mental hospital for unexplained reasons.

Max, who dreams of adventures, abandons his studies at 18 to become involved in the navy. He becomes the sailor 512.

In this complex chronicle of the evolution of a provincial family's life, the story follows three generations of at least two neighboring families...