The setting is Provence, where Jean Cadoret and his family try to make a go of living on a property his wife Aimee inherited. Cheated, betrayed, and bankrupted, the project fails. This picnic is one of the family’s happier moments.
See: Claude Berri. Jean de Floret (1986). Screenplay by Claude Berri, Gérard Brach, and Marcel Pagnol. Gérard Depardieu as Jean de Floret [Jean Cadoret], Elisabeth Depardieu as Aimee Cadoret, and Ernestine Mazurowna as Manon Cadoret [child]