Patriotic film about the Belgian woman hero Gabrielle Petit - Madame Legrand - during the First World War in Belgium.
The daughter of a Brussels restaurant proprietor prefers the company of a young man from Paris, to that of her compatriots.
December 30, 1938, the day of Emile Vandervelde's funeral. Belgium is in mourning and pays tribute to a great militant, the leader of the Belgian Labour Party, a statesman and a key figure in international socialism.
