"Action!" How the Marthod villagers walk and walk along narrow tracks in the Arly Valley. They tirelessly climb the slope, herding their livestock beneath the June sun… or ride a sleigh through a snowstorm. Why do they get together at the factory exit? And why, on the brink of the new millennium, are they digging deep into their past? This young woman, so in love, why is she stalling? 1910, in a village in the Savoy region… and it's very difficult to combine a marriage for love with one for money. Where are these parallel stories, so real they seem like documentary, leading to? They oscillate between black and white and color, as though to better measure the time that's passed…