The action takes place in Cantal in the 1950s. Le Bricou, an aging cowherd, lost two animals while summering on the Limon plateau. A banal, almost insignificant event and yet it is enough to hammer him into his head. His life is turned upside down. And if others laughed at him, and if he was no longer good for anything, and if his wife cheated on him, maybe he even got scabies...