Between the two World Wars, more than eight hundred young Polish women came to Indre-et-Loire to work as farmhands. Their story has come down to us through the letters of their social worker, Julie Duval. Artisan photographer Louis Clergeau, whose images punctuate this film, gave them faces and bodies. This documentary sheds light on a little-known chapter of French immigration and recounts the harsh fate of these women in the Touraine countryside, an experience that still moves us today.
