Nobody’s Boy (Sans Famille‪)‬

After the cow is sold, Rémi fears Shrove Tuesday will bring no pancakes. Mother Barberin surprises him with flour, eggs, milk, butter—and just as supper is near, footsteps sound in the yard.

In Chavanon, a poor village in the French countryside, eight-year-old Rémi has always believed the woman who comforts him is his mother. But he is a foundling, and when a message from Paris brings news of an accident and demands for money, the family must give up the cow that feeds them. Their tenderness survives even in hardship; whether their little home can survive what comes next is another question. Who has arrived at the gate, and what will the visitor mean for Rémi?

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