Maud Rayer

The true story of a nun who betrayed a network of Resistance fighters after having a passionate but doomed love affair with a priest during the Second World War.

제 1차 세계대전이 끝날 무렵. 프랑스인 마띨드는 전쟁에 참가한 자신의 약혼자 마네끄가 군법재판소에서 사형 언도를 받고 동료 죄수 네 명과 함께 적군과 아군 사이의 비무장 지대에 버려졌다는 사실을 전해 듣는다. 살아남았을 가능성은 전혀 없다는 사실과 함께. 사랑하는 사람의 죽음을 인정할 수 없었던 마띨드. 마네끄의 생사여부를 밝히기 위한 그녀의 길고도 힘든 여정은 그때부터 시작된다. 마띨드는 마네끄의 마지막 며칠에 관한 사실을 밝혀나가면서 사람들로부터 조금씩 다른 증언을 듣게 되고, 그때마다 절망에 빠진다. 그러나 그녀는 희망의 끈을 놓지 않는다. 그래야만 살아날 힘이 생기기에… 선천적으로 낙천적인 성격의 마띨드는 약혼자가 분명히 살아있다는 믿음을 가지고 주변 사람들을 설득해 마네끄의 행적을 찾아 나선다. 그러나 시간이 흐르면서 다섯 명의 사형수가 겪은 엄청난 시련이 점점 모습을 드러내고, 마띨드는 전쟁이 수많은 사람들에게 남긴 여러 모습의 비극을 지켜보게 된다.

The year is 1898. Héloïse, 9 years old, comes from a family belonging to the anti-Dreyfus and anti-Semitic Parisian high bourgeoisie. In a spirit of revolt, she begins a love affair with Maxime, a young Jewish journalist. During a terrible quarrel with her father, the latter suffers a stroke and dies. To get her away from Maxime, her mother Mathilde and her cousin Olympe take Héloïse on a trip to the Orient. After Cairo and the Pyramids, they go up the Nile and cross the desert in a caravan.

In Paris in 1935, a young Jewish woman married to an anti-fascist activist befriends her neighbor who is dating a far-right supporter.

In 1956, the rich French publisher of the works of the Marquis de Sade, Jean-Jacques Pauvert, was summoned to court for violating good morals and publishing pornography. Sade was born in 1755 and already in 1778 he was sentenced to a years-long prison, which was renewed by himself because of the writing of "scandalous" texts. This saved his life after the French revolution, but he soon came into conflict with Robespierre.

A detective comes out of retirement to help his daughter's fiance prove that he did not commit a series of murders.

Without warning, Mélie disembarks on the cargo ship where her father has the sailor's blues. He remembers his drifts and his friend Max who used to get him into some crazy situations. He remembers Alice and Luc whom he decided to avenge. He has his grenade ready. But Melie has just arrived.

A sickly young girl is given away by her father to a childless couple. Twenty years later, she marries her adopted father.

The young teacher Marelle goes in search of her husband who mysteriously disappeared while attending the funeral of a childhood friend.

After a feminist is found murdered in her own home, a police detective investigates the crime with the help of several determined women.

In an antiquarian, a man buys a leather-bound blank book to use as diary. Once home, he finds the book has started writing itself - with Chapter I detailing everything that happened to him, including the book starting to write itself.

Nathalie, traumatized by the death of a child she had to look after, is hired by Marti to take care of the little Serge, his son. The boy is abnormal, immured in silence. Nathalie brings him out of his shell and becomes attached to her protege. She feels his life is threatened: serious incidents happen. For Christmas, they are alone, and the child mysteriously disappears. She discovers him in the basement, locked up in a chest.

A man returns to Rouen, after fifteen years in the United States, and feels like a stranger among old friends.