In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone notices the provocative Eliane. She singles out Pin-Pon and soon is crying on his shoulder (she's myopic and hates her reputation as a dunce and as easy); she moves in with him, knits baby clothes, and plans their wedding. Is this love or some kind of plot? She asks Pin-Pon's mother and aunt about the piano in the barn: who delivered it on a November night in 1955? Why does she want to know, and what does it have to do with her mother's sorrows, her father's injury, this quick marriage, and the last name on her birth certificate?
Isabelle Adjani
as Eliane Wieck, aka 'Elle'
Alain Souchon
as Fiorimonto Montecciari, aka 'Pin-Pon'
Suzanne Flon
as Nine, aka 'Cognata'
Jenny Clève
as Mrs. Montecciari, Pin-Pon's Mother
Maria Machado
as Paula Wieck Devigne, aka 'Eva Braun', Eliane's mother
Evelyne Didi
as Miss Dieu, aka 'Calamité', schoolmistress of Eliane
Jean Gaven
as Leballech, boss of the sawmill
François Cluzet
as Mickey, brother of Pin-Pon
Manuel Gélin
as Boubou, brother of Pin-Pon
Roger Carel
as Henri, aka 'Henri IV', owner of Pin-Pon
Michel Galabru
as Gabriel Devigne, Eliane's father
Marie-Pierre Casey
as Ms. Tussaud, nurse
