Donatienne

At a modest farmhouse perched on a quiet hillside, Jean and his diminutive wife Louarn make their humble living. The landscape is painted with mist‑shrouded woods, rolling fields of wheat and a lone, weathered cottage that holds their hopes and worries. Their lives are simple but strained: Jean is a towering veteran of the sea, while Louarn, newly arrived from a distant port, tends to their growing brood and the farm’s chores.

One evening a mysterious letter arrives, offering Louarn the chance to become a wet‑nurse for a well‑to‑do family in Saint‑Brieuc. The prospect awakens a mix of excitement and dread—promising relief from endless poverty, yet threatening the fragile balance of their domestic world. As the couple debates the offer, the tension between duty, ambition, and the yearning for a better future begins to reshape their quiet existence.