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In a small town, crushed by the summer heat, in 1919, a war hero is held prisoner in the depths of a deserted barracks. In front of the door, his battered dog barks day and night. Not far from there, in the countryside, a young woman worn out by working the land, too educated however to be a simple peasant, waits and hopes. The judge who arrives to unravel this affair is an aristocrat whose principles have been shaken by the war. Three characters and, in the middle of them, a dog, who holds the key to the drama…