A woman and her seven children live on a farm in Southern France. In spite of the hard work and the mediocre accommodation, their life would be a happy one, but for one person: the owner of the farm, an egotistic and authoritarian individual who is also the lover of the woman and the father of all her children. The farmer handles them as his property, uses them as cheap labour to work in the fields, and denies them the right to leave the farm. It is only the love of the woman for her children that allows them to endure their situation; but even for her, disenchantment has set in. – IMDb
Sandrine Veysset (born 1967) is a French film director. She was born in Avignon. Veysset studied French literature until she dropped out of school to pursue filmmaking. A friend introduced her to Léos Carax and she was hired as his driver while he was shooting Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (The Lovers on the Bridge) (1991) in 1989. Her first real contact with cinema happened when she became an assistant to the art director of that film. The experience encouraged her to begin writing her first screenplay in 1991. he directed from her first script in 1995 and the resulting film, Y aura-t-il de la neige à Noël? (Will It Snow for Christmas?) (1996), won her a César Award in 1997 for best first film. Her third film, Martha…Martha (2001) opened the Directors’ Fortnight at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. —wikipedia