This is the story of Babin and his fellow villagers: Toussaint Brodeur the Fly-tamer, a blacksmith in love with a widow from St. Barnabe who cheats on him with the old priest; Meo the hairdresser whose love for the bottle gives his customers strange hairdos; Madame Gelinas, who has been pregnant for the last two decades and who can't seem to make her cakes rise anymore; the beautiful Anna Domini who has been crying her eyes out and peeling petals off daisies ever since her true love went to War; and, last but not least, Babin, the Witch's son, at odds with the strict new priest. Discover the world of Fred Pellerin, a place where oxen can fall in love and where a clock can grow from where a pocket watch is sown.