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- The Dordogne, 1869. Pierre Naboulet, a poor tenant farmer, has drawn a lucky number in the French Army draft lottery. He will be exempt from a five-year period of military service. But he sells his number to Florent, a rich merchant, and takes the place of Florent's son, Arnaud, who has been drafted. Woodcutting with his brother, Pierre leaves his axe in a tree to await his return home. He spends his last night in the barn with his redheaded sweetheart, Henriette... Emperor Napoleon III declares war on Prussia, and the Prussians invade. In Alsace, Pierre's regiment fights the invaders in a forest. Many French are killed; Pierre escapes, wounded. He finds a cottage. Inside a boy is hiding. The redheaded boy speaks only the Alsatian dialect of German...
- A chic cabaret. A languid torch singer. At a table in the restaurant room, a couple in crisis who are tearing themselves apart. Suddenly the film switches from black and white to color: the scene is a movie theater now, and the film we have been watching is the one being projected there. Among the spectators, one is singled out, a man who seems not only captivated but outright challenged by the moving images on the screen. As a matter of fact, the story, turning more and more dramatic, reminds him of his own. Like Pierre, the character in the film, the spectator has behaved in an undignified manner with the woman he loved.