In an idyllic village in Provence, the locals spend most of their time bickering and feuding, but they are all bought together to try the bread at the new bakery in town.

The night after the bakery's first day of business, Aurélie, Aimable's pretty and much younger wife, runs off with Dominique, a handsome young shepherd who works for the local marquis.

After hearing the young priest mention his plight during the sermon at Sunday mass, Aimable heads to a bar, where he gets drunk on pastis and makes a public scene, during which he declares that he cannot bring himself to bake now that his wife is gone.

Aimable neatens up the bakery and makes dinner, and when a penitent Aurélie returns and asks for forgiveness, he acts as though he still thinks she just went to visit her mother.

Marcel Pagnol's grandson Nicolas and cinematographer Guillaume Schiffman supervised a 4K restoration of the film from the 35mm nitrate original camera negative conducted by the company Hiventy.