En 1952, Violette Aillhaud est en âge de se marier quand son village est brutalement privé de tous ses hommes par la répression qui suit le soulèvement républicain de décembre 1851. Deux ans passent dans un isolement total. Entre femmes, serment est fait que si un homme vient, il sera leur mari commun, afin que la vie de leur ventre continue.

In 1852, Violette Ailhaud was at a mariaggeable age, when her village was brutally deprived of men by the repression that followed the Republican uprising in December 1851. Two years went by in complete isolation. The women of the village took a vow that if a man came, he would be their common husband. So that life could be their common husband, so that life could continue.