Angelo, a young 19th-century Italian revolutionary, flees from assassins through cholera-ridden southern France. He makes his way to Manosque to look for comrades but instead winds up accused by the townspeople of spreading the epidemic. Angelo escapes to the rooftops of the town, meeting Pauline (Juliette Binoche) on his way down, and the pair continue their dangerous voyage back to Italy. Exquisite Provence locations help boost this adventure saga, based on Jean Giono’s 1951 novel—a literary classic in France.