The feature debut of an experienced French documentarian, this is a sweet-natured tale of a shy lad reluctantly returning from Paris to his Provençal roots following the heart attack of his overbearing father. He agrees to help his mother run their village shop and to drive around with a mobile grocery to serve remote villages; gradually, he comes to love his querulous, eccentric customers. The landscape with Mont Sainte-Victoire regularly in view is seductively beautiful, and the movie's title is clearly a homage to Provence's cinematic poet Marcel Pagnol, director of The Baker's Wife