夜总会的脱衣舞女劳拉(Emmanuelle Seigner 艾玛纽尔•塞尼耶 饰)邂逅了自称职业为画家的男人马克(Philippe Torreton 菲利普•托雷顿 饰)。
Provence, 1847. The son of a wealthy landowner in the south of France, Jean-Baptiste, loses his mother in a tragic accident. His truculent father, who was always envious of his son and his relationship with his mother, takes a harlot he met a few months earlier as his new bride. Soon after, Jean-Baptiste is falsely accused by his "stepmother" of trying to take advantage of her....