Once upon a time, a poor woodcutter and his wife lived in a great forest. Cold, hunger, poverty and a war raging all around them meant their lives were very hard. One day, the woodcutter's wife rescues a baby. A baby girl thrown from one of the many trains that constantly pass through the forest. This baby, this "most precious of cargoes", will transform the lives of the poor woodcutter's wife and her husband, as well as those whose paths the child will cross - including the man who threw her from the train. And some will try to protect her, whatever the cost. Their story will reveal the worst and the best in the hearts of men.
Jean-Louis Trintignant
as Narrateur (voice)
Dominique Blanc
as Wife (voice)
Grégory Gadebois
as Woodcutter (voice)
Denis Podalydès
as Man with the Broken Face (voice)
Serge Hazanavicius
as Man in the mole hat (voice)
Antonin Maurel
as The father (voice)
Matej Hofmann
as Interpreter (voice)
Laurent Bateau
as A fellow woodcutter (voice)
Simon Volodine
as A fellow woodcutter (voice)
Oleg Imbert
as A fellow woodcutter (voice)
Adam Carage
as Red Army colonel (voice)
