La Maison des bois

Gamekeeper Albert lives with his wife and their two children in the house in the woods. In 1917, they welcome three boys whose fathers had gone to the front. While not in school, children play war and hide in the forest.

The gendarmes investigate a thief who gleefully picks from the common reserve of the village. Hervé sympathizes with the elegant Count, and has lunch in his castle.

A pleasant Sunday countryside party is organized by the inhabitants of the house of the woods. This lull is disturbed by serious news: Marcel, one of Hervé's two companions, is called to the front.

A garrison stops near the village and the children see real soldiers for the first time. One offers his baptism to Hervé, who is overjoyed. But death is never far from the village and a plane crashes nearby.