Toine is hunchbacked and suffers from his handicap. He is in love with Naïs, the daughter of a violent peasant. Naïs is in love with Frédéric, a young man from a middle-class family. Summer arrives and the young lovers indulge in pleasures that their social condition does not allow them...
Naïs is a drama by Émile Zola adapted for the cinema by Marcel Pagnol. It combines the power and cruelty of Émile Zola with the humour and poetry of Marcel Pagnol.
It's a world of poetry that opens up before us, and all its characters, with their well-tempered characters, carry us away in a whirlwind of feelings.
A story and characters of rare humanity that touch our hearts.
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