"The word 'revolution' to us Frenchmen is not a vague term. We know that Revolution is a rupture, that Revolution is an Absolute. There is no such thing as a moderate revolution, there is no such thing as a planned revolution—as one speaks of a planned economy. The revolution we are announcing will overturn the entire existing order or it will not take place at all..."

A man, a woman, or their shadows, speak: of love, of what makes it possible or impossible, of the weight of the past. Their words mingle in a strange dialogue, which raises the tension to the extreme.

A priest stuck in a rural congregation and burdened with his overwrought spirituality, finds purpose in a troubled woman accused of murder.

A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man.

This is about the execution of 21 carmelite nuns in the latter stages of the terror during the French Revolution.

A young priest taking over the parish at Ambricourt tries to fulfill his duties even as he fights a mysterious stomach ailment.