Dans l’entre-deux guerres, plus de huit cents jeunes polonaises sont venues en Indre-et-Loire pour travailler comme bonnes de ferme. Leur histoire nous est parvenue grâce aux lettres échangées par leur assistante sociale, Julie Duval. Louis Clergeau, artisan photographe, dont les clichés parsèment ce film, leur a donné un visage et un corps. Ce film témoigne de ce pan méconnu de l’immigration française et raconte l’âpre destin de ces immigrées dans la campagne tourangelle dont l’histoire nous bouleverse encore aujourd’hui.

Between the two wars, France recruited large numbers of Polish women workers, often very young, to work as farm maids. Thanks to exceptional archives, kept at the Departmental Archives by their social worker, Julie Duval, as well as photographic portraits of these foreigners taken by Louis Clergeau, a country photographer, the film sets out to tell the story of this little-known part of the history of immigration to the countryside. It is about a double discrimination that affects them: being a woman and an immigrant.