Annie and Peter Mayle decide, in their own words, to take the plunge: they quit their jobs as a tax investigator and an advertising executive and move to Provence in the south of France. Their first month goes from outstanding to downright puzzling: while they adore the food and wine, they encounter amusing cultural barriers.

John ThawPeter Mayle

Lindsay DuncanAnnie Mayle

Jean-Pierre DelageColombani

Jo DoumergAmedee Clement

Marcel ChampelAntoine Riviere

Bernard SpiegelMarcel

Mohamed Adi BouafiaBen Souma

Annie SinigaliaMadame Hermonville

Colin StintonBishop Brian Stanford

Pierre LondicheOlivier

Patricia MalvoisinManon

Jean-Baptiste ChaudoulLeonard

Henri TalauJoseph

Denise Costanzo-RuffMadame Jacqueline

Olivier PicoXavier

Cedric AielloCedric

Harry HallGary Lambron

Dominique NoéBernard Baston

Amélie PrévostAnouk

Alfred MolinaTony Havers

Jean PanisseFernand

Antoinette MoyaMadame Seguin

Dominique HulinPierrot Delgado

Michel PilorgéAlain

Tim PreeceHarry

Astrid RenouxJuliette

Claire ToemanJulia

Catherine RabettMarion Hart-Bowers

Olivier MarchalLouis

Alain FrérotMonsieur Michel

Francis LaxAdjudant Boisrond

Daisy SadlerZoe Printemps

Jean-Marie RichierSerge Coulon

Daniel MilgramRégis Santoni

Bernard MalaterreRoger Godin

Magalie KaimDorothée

Jim CarterTed Hopkins

Susie BlakeSusan Hopkins

James FleetHugo Compton

Mary MaddoxTopsy Compton

Geoffrey HutchingsRalph Tompkins

Maggie SteedLibby Tompkins

Edna DoréMrs Robinson

Frank MiddlemassClive Parrott

Bertrand BautheacPère Edouard

Claude BrossetMonsieur Fosse

Sylvain CorthayHubert de Montfort

Delphine RichMarie-Thérèse Prinville

Patricia BarzykHélène Lauriston

David GabisonMaître Boutroux

Pierre CossoAbbé Pain

Marie-José CourtoisMadame Perrot

Bonnafet TarbouriechPerrot

Maryse KusterMadame Colombani