Arthur Honegger in addition to his concert career was an active and prolific composer for films, writing or collaborating in writing around forty films. Regain was a film directed by Pagnol, which made little impact at the time. It appears that all copies were destroyed during World War II. However, Honegger anticipated that under most circumstances this film music would disappear as soon as the film left the theaters, and prepared symphonic suites from many of them, including this fifteen-minute suite in five movements of music from Regain. He assembled the suite based on purely musical considerations, attempting no retelling of the film's story.

It was scored for a small orchestra of winds, percussion, strings, and piano. The ideas are striking and would clearly have had immediate effect on the audience in the context of the film. The first through third movements are slow, short movements, including a very Impressionist movement ("Spring") of exceptional beauty. The fourth movement is witty, funny, and very brief, with a final movement in faster tempo that sums up the suite. The orchestration is very striking and imaginative.

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