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An uninformed bride mistakes her wedding night for an attack, then becomes convinced a playful dog bite has doomed her honeymoon.
After four years at sea, a sailor returns to Marseille and meets a woman whose questions turn a night of celebration into dread.
Three protected schoolboys share a railway carriage with a woman whose sudden crisis defeats every adult precaution.
A wealthy, childless couple offers two poor farming families money and security in exchange for adopting a son.
A severe priest sets out to confront his niece’s secret lover, but the moonlit countryside challenges his certainty.
Spring fever draws a young man toward a stranger on the Seine, until another passenger offers an urgent warning about love.
An aging Parisian couple's return to the woods of their courtship ends with an embarrassed appearance before the village mayor.
A married couple stages an illicit evening together, only for honest questions to become more stimulating than the disguise.
Two tipsy noblewomen trade secrets, and one boasts of turning a servant’s devotion into summer entertainment.
An aging actress welcomes a traveler into the flower-covered villa where she lives with portraits of the men who loved her.
A confirmed skeptic of love recalls the moonlit boat ride that briefly unsettled all his carefully reasoned certainty.
A man asks his doctor whether reason has led him to an invisible world—or into madness.
During a winter retreat, a resourceful French lieutenant risks his mission to carry a freezing young woman through enemy-held country.
After a murdered child is found in a village wood, the mayor leads a search that finds no culprit but cannot quiet the countryside.
A hunter in a frozen marsh witnesses a wild bird's devotion and finds his sport transformed by the sight.
A man who fears his own hands demonstrates a power over minds and objects that leaves his friend unsure whether either of them is sane.
A jealous man insists he is sane while recounting the obsession that made him turn against his lover and her horse.
A traveler joins a sparsely attended funeral and learns how a town punished a woman for the violence done to her as a child.
In an asylum, a beautiful woman hides imaginary scars while a doctor explains the guilt behind her delusion.
A provincial town crowns its shyest young man as a model of virtue, then watches its solemn civic experiment take an unruly turn.
A pregnant widow is sued in open court by the married man she promised to pay for helping secure an inheritance.
A major turns military discipline on an entire fortified town for the sake of one forbidden meeting with a married woman.
A Norman brothel closes for a country confirmation, carrying its lively household from familiar commerce into an unexpected sacred occasion.
A kindhearted coachman adopts an unwanted dog, but her devotion and unruly habits bring him to an impossible choice.
