School of Life

The immense forest, the misty ponds, the moors and the fields, all belong here to the Comte de la Fresnaye, a taciturn widower who lives alone in his manor. The Count tolerates the poachers on the estate, but Borel pursues them relentlessly and tries on the most cunning and elusive of them, Totoche. At the heart of the Sologne fairytale, alongside the poacher, a great lover of nature, Paul will learn life, but also the forest and its secrets. A still heavier secret hangs over the estate, for Paul did not come there by chance ...