1920. Count Anne d'Orgel entertains the upper crust of Paris. A handsome young man, François de Séryeuse, who is fascinated by him, gets into his manor and falls in love with Mahé, the count's young wife. Mahé alerts her husband but Anne does not care much, dismissing the fledgling idyll as sheer childishness, even if Mahé faints on stage while playing "The Tempest" with François, even if she dreams of François night after night...