In 1937, a young married couple, Lisette and André Honoré Roux, move from Paris to the village of Roussillon in Provence. Raised in an orphanage and passionate about art, Lisette is reluctant to give up a possible apprenticeship in a Paris gallery, and she can’t understand why André, who is an officer of the “Guild of Encadreurs, the association of picture-frame craftsmen,” wants to give up his position to care for his sickly grandfather, Pascal.