Description

A comedy with tragic undertones, where the blindness of men emerges as the new face of Fate. In his small country castle, the Baron rejoices at the imminent return of his son Perdican and his niece Camille, whom he wishes to unite in marriage and who seem to have loved each other tenderly since childhood. But Camille receives her cousin with coldness.<br><br> Wary of men, whose fickleness she fears, the young woman yearns for an ideal, exclusive passion, which she believes she can only find in God. Humiliated by Camille's rejection, Perdican takes revenge by courting Rosette, the pretty peasant girl, his cousin's foster sister...<br><br> This game of seduction, which mixes pride, self-esteem, and love, will gradually prove dangerous...