The Lovers of Médoc | Bernard Duporge

In the year 1956, Mathieu works as a humble farmhand for a wealthy family in Médoc. Secretly, he has fallen deeply in love with Mélanie, the masters' daughter. An obviously impossible love. But when the young man is called to do his military service in Algeria where the war is raging, he defies the prohibitions and confesses his feelings to Mélanie, who then tells him that she is getting married. Mad with grief, Mathieu braves all dangers on the battlefields. Until the day he meets a young Algerian woman who looks a lot like Mélanie. After the war, he brings this beautiful stranger back to his village in Bordeaux. Torn between two women so similar, Mathieu has unwittingly set in motion the frightening machinery of a drama...