La soule

In the debacle of the battle of Vitoria in Spain in 1813 Pierre Cursey was robbed of the horses of his unit by a fugitive He is taken prisoner and sent to a floating pontoon He managed to survive but vowed to find the traitor who had put him through hell He finds him two years later in a village in the Dordogne Francois Lemercier is the towns shoemaker and above all the captain and hero of the local soule team a ball game that dates back to the Middle Ages Cursey will discover in Lemercier a man of chivalrous honor