Le portrait de Jean-Marie Vianney (1786-1859), curé d'Ars-sur-Formans pendant quarante-et-un-ans, qui sera canonisé par Rome en 1925.
Filming the winter landscapes of the plains and villages of Ain, where the sanctified priest the Curé of Ars lived, Jacques Demy tried to understand the fighter for the faith and his daily torments of mysticism.