Conseil Régional de Basse Normandie

Désiré is a fine servant and butler who regularly seduces the ladies of the house where he works, but then he moves on. This time he is working for Odette, the mistress of the minister of Posts and he is living a new situation. He has fallen in love with with Odette.

Two women in a French village during World War 2 anxiously await a letter which may or may not be arriving for either of them.