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- Infantryman Jean Froissard is sentenced to two years in Biribi Military Prison in North Africa. He seems to get along, but as incompetence, corruption and sadism of his superiors (which include sexual abuse of the prison inmates) force him and others into rebellion. Court martial ensues ...
- Wally is the daughter and only child to Fender, a rich, widowed mountain farmer in the Ötztal valley in the Tyrolian Alps. She is young, beautiful, intrepid and, most of all, strong-minded. When she at great risk catches a vulture's young from its nest she carries the respect of her father, but also the scorn of Bear-Jospeh, assistant hunter to the local squire. He mocks her as "Geierwally" (Vulture-Wally), as he thinks young women shouldn't wear pants and climb around in the mountains hunting. What he doesn't yet know is that Wally is almost mad with love for him - and too stiff with pride to admit the slightest idea of that. To make it complicated, her father wants her to marry Vinzenz, a neighbouring farmer. But Wally, loathing Vinzenz and burning with desire for Joseph refuses. Mad with frenzy, Old Fender bludgeons her with a heavy stick, and, as she still won't budge, he orders her away to a sole hut high up in the mountains, where she has to live in snow and ice beyond the clouds until she gives in. She leaves with Hansl, the vulture she's tamed, as only companion ...
- After being retired from the French army, former sergeant Josse goes on to live with his sister somewhere in the French province. Unmarried, without children and friends, he spends his days strolling around - or patrolling? - the streets of the small town without a clear aim in life. Only when he discovers the remnants of a derelict fortress in near his town he regains some confidence indulging in memories of his service: those were the days when he had the power to push people around the same way he's treated by his battleaxe sister. His daydreams are interrupted by the arrival of a couple of young men formerly under his command who now want to avenge themselves for the humiliations received during their term with the military. Shocked by this incident and further abused by his bossy sister, he starts to break down morally and more and more retires to his humble room in his sister's house ...