Martin is an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster, more or less willingly transformed into the baker in a Norman village. All that remains of his youthful ambitions is a lively imagination and just as lively a passion for great literature, Gustave Flaubert in particular.
Pierre - a successful lawyer, a beloved family-man and a caring father of two children. Beautiful Elsa - an extremely popular novelist, trying to recover with a much younger lover after divorce and upbringing her teenage daughter.