Hopes

Grigou owns a patch of land between farmers Martins and Auberts fields Both covet this plotAs Grigou has lost the title deedthe mayor of the village decides to sell itAfter an interminable auction sale Aubert carries the day To add insult to injuryshortly after Martin is expelled from his farmand becomes an innkeeper a doomed inn where the former owner hanged himself Ten years after Auberts daughter falls in love with Martins sonTheir fathers being deadly enemies their marriage seems impossible