This was comic actor Pierre Richard's third appearance[citation needed] on film, playing a secondary role toward the end of the plot.

Philippe Noiret plays a henpecked childless farmer that lives oppressed by his authoritarian and materialistic wife, being the only worker in his farm.

Whenever he attempts to take a small rest, indulge in any distraction, or simply falls asleep out of exhaustion, there she is chasing him to move on.

When she and her elderly parents are killed in a car accident, he decides that the time has come to take it easy and enjoy life a little, sets all his livestock free, and then practically disappears.

The only clue that he is still alive is his dog, who periodically goes shopping to the nearby town with a basket in its mouth.