The heroes of the novel “Marie on High” by the French writer Agnès Ledig are quite earthly people, only very different. Thirty-year-old Marie is a farmer, and this means working eighteen hours a day without vacation or weekends, because you can’t say to the cows: “Bye! I'll be back in a week"; The only joy is that her little daughter. Clumsy and withdrawn, Olivier is a police officer in a rural district. Life did not spoil them: Marie’s mother abandoned her in early childhood, the girl was raised by her grandparents, and Olivier received from his parents only memories of their quarrels and a scar on his chin. Both dream of happiness, but each has their own skeletons in their closet, and their characters couldn’t be cooler. And now war is declared! The outcome is unclear.