The pigs live peacefully in the tranquil Mullewapp, but one day there's unexpected excitement around the farm: Waldemar can hardly stay in check ahead of his birthday and wants to eat his cake right away.
It's 1941 but France is trapped in the nineteenth century, governed by steam and Napoleon V, where scientists vanish mysteriously. Avril, a teenage girl, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.
In 1950s France, Gabrielle is a passionate, free-spirited woman who is in a loveless marriage and falls for another man when she is sent away to the Alps to treat her kidney stones. Gabrielle yearns to free herself and run away with André.