A man is accused of murdering his wife. A trial film focused on the relationship between an accused and his lawyer, who must defend him against all odds, and especially against himself.

Marie Jourdan hears that her friend Paul is in jail and travels to Provence to help.

In an attempt to flee Nazi-occupied France, Georg assumes the identity of a dead author but soon finds himself stuck in Marseilles, where he falls in love with Maria, a young woman searching for her missing husband.

Alice learns of her mother's accidental death while travelling in Canada. The body has been repatriated to France at the request of her husband, Alice's father. But he has supposedly been dead for 22 years. Is it really her father? Why would her mother have lied to her?