The story of three candid and mischievous characters who live in the heart of the Bourbonnais: "Le Glaudius", a farmer who still ploughs with his horse and who doesn't give a damn about agricultural productivity and new technologies. "La Germaine", his wife who loves charm acts and the letter carrier, a funny civil servant, always ready to organize "trips".

A few years after the revocation of theEdict of Nantes, the Camisards, Protestants from the Cévennes region, mostly peasants and silk workers, formed groups following Gédéon Laporte and fought Louis XIV's dragoons.

A young man, a researcher in ancient languages, begins to receive strange radio messages in a language only he knows. The messages ask him for very bizarre missions. Eventually, he understands that he's just a pawn in an intergalactic game, and that the fate of Earth depends on him.