In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone notices the provocative Eliane. She singles out Pin-Pon and soon is crying on his shoulder (she's myopic and hates her reputation as a dunce and as easy); she moves in with him, knits baby clothes, and plans their wedding. Is this love or some kind of plot? She asks Pin-Pon's mother and aunt about the piano in the barn: who delivered it on a November night in 1955? Why does she want to know, and what does it have to do with her mother's sorrows, her father's injury, this quick marriage, and the last name on her birth certificate?
as Eliane Wieck, aka 'Elle'
as Fiorimonto Montecciari, aka 'Pin-Pon'
as Nine, aka 'Cognata'
as Mrs. Montecciari, Pin-Pon's Mother
as Paula Wieck Devigne, aka 'Eva Braun', Eliane's mother
as Miss Dieu, aka 'Calamité', schoolmistress of Eliane
as Leballech, boss of the sawmill
as Mickey, brother of Pin-Pon
as Boubou, brother of Pin-Pon
as Henri, aka 'Henri IV', owner of Pin-Pon
as Gabriel Devigne, Eliane's father
as Ms. Tussaud, nurse
as Josette,wife of Henri IV
as Doctor
as Lou Lou Lou
as Georges Massigne
as Rostollan
as Mr. Brochard
as Ferraldo, boss of transport company
as Fiero
as Pamier
as Butler
as Touret, libidinous guy
as Ophthalmologist
as Eliane, child
as Mrs. Brochard (uncredited)
