The story takes place in 1917. Véronique is a young woman of 35 years, nurse at the military hospital of Besançon. She suddenly learns of the murder of her husband, the mysterious Count Vorski, whom she has not seen for fourteen years. Her research will also lead her to the track of her father and son whom she believed to have died in ...

Paris, 1925. Bénédict Masson, bookbinder and poet, is struck with great ugliness like a curse. Secretly in love with his neighbor, Christine, he cannot refuse to accompany her everyday to the Coulteray mansion where she works. The atmosphere there is, at the very least, strange: the marquise, suffering from a mysterious illness, accuse...

A rich young woman asks a poor man to play for her the role of a generous friend. He ends up falling in love.