It is the fall of 1939 and Lieutenant Grange and his men are living in a chalet above a concrete bunker deep in the Ardennes forest charged with defending the FrenchBelgian border against the Germans in a war that seems unreal distant and unlikely. Far more immediate is the earthy life of the forest itself and the deep sensations of childhood it recalls from Granges memory. Ostensibly readying for war Grange instead spends his time observing the change in seasons falling in love with a young fr