When taking hold of a recently hatched pheasant chick, the tremor of new life in her hand sets Constance weeping uncontrollably.

As he gets more comfortable with her, their lovemaking becomes more tender and intense, one day cavorting naked in the rain and decorating each other with flowers.

Taking more of an interest in life, Sir Clifford buys a motorized wheelchair and ventures into the woods, but it gets stuck and stalls.

Before going off on holiday, Constance spends the whole night with Parkin in his cottage, from which he has cleared all traces of his wife, who has gone to live with another man.

Constance heads back to England to find that Sir Clifford has been making further efforts to live more normally and has begun to walk on crutches.

Eventually, he accepts her offer of buying him a small farm and agrees that they must part until the baby is born.

The film was shot in France's former Limousin region, at the Château de Montméry in Ambazac (Haute-Vienne) and in Marcillac-la-Croisille (Corrèze).