Laurence Myrga

In the lands of Brière a bitter dispute broke out over the draining of marshes for brick making. An old man, Aoustin, leads the resistance and refuses to give the hand of his daughter Théotiste to a young peasant, Jeannin, who supports it.

Loosely based on Balzac's novel "La peau de chagrin", the story revolves around a man who steals a small, magical figurine named Narayana.

Geneviève is an orphan child and living with her little sister Josette. Because of her economic situation, she cancels marriage with an honest and respectful man. Josette, after a short and tremendous love affair, dies leaving a little baby boy. Due to this incident, Geneviève is convicted and imprisoned. Wandering from town to town, village to village, she finally manages to get to her ancient fiance's house.

On Christmas Eve, a poor woman, once seduced by a Romani man who abandoned her with their child, vainly begs for help for her dying little girl. In despair, she begs Death to take her in her daughter's place. The Angel of Death appears and reveals to her what her daughter's life would be. Resigned, the mother allows fate to take its course.

Adaptation of a romantic Lamartine poem. A youth leaves a monastery where he has stayed, after the anti-religious terror of the Revolution. He befriends a youth who turns out to be a girl. But his former bishop calls Jocelyn back to duty.

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