Appointment in Bray

Against the backdrop of the raging First World War, Julien, a Luxembourger, studies piano in Paris to avoid enlisting. One day his friend Jacques, also a musician and now a fighter pilot on the front, invites him to spend a few days in his family's empty house in Bray. The housekeeper, a beautiful, stoic woman, lets Julien in, but Jacques is late, leaving him to wait. In the meantime, he begins reminiscing about the pre-war days spent with his friend and Jacques' girlfriend Odile.