Chartes, August 1944, recently liberated from German occupation.The Giraud family have been hairdressers from father to son and so it naturally came to Pierre to take over from his father, killed in a prison camp a year earlier. Marie, his mother, a heroïne of the French Résistance, is in charge of the Ladies salon. In addition she also recruits candidates for her son’s rather strange activities. Everything goes according to plan until Lise comes into their lives …
