In the north of France, the life of a nice family of marginalized.

Paris, 1925. Bénédict Masson, bookbinder and poet, is secretly in love with his neighbor, Christine. Christine works at the strange Coulteray mansion where the marquise accuses her husband of being a vampire. But Bénédict has other preoccupations: six of his apprentices have disappeared without a trace.

Sophie, viscountess of Valrude, believes herself being a widow since her husband disappeared in the Amazon.

A servant girl, given in marriage when she turns out to be pregnant, can't bring herself to live away from her master.