Max Olivier-Lacamp's 1969 prize-winning novel is a historical work set against the Camisard War, tracing Jean Jean's struggle between faith and conscience after his return to his native village. Memories of forced conversion, the longing for religious freedom, and a reunion with an old love intersect in the tense landscape of the Cévennes.

A Camisard War story in which the memory of renouncing faith collides with the will to defend it.