Paris, 1857. While on trial for moral outrage, French writer G. Flaubert tells the court and the audience the true story of the heroine of his novel Madame Bovary, a sensitive but capricious woman whose desperate efforts to overcome the bourgeois conventions of a dull, provincial life led her family first to ruin and disrepute and finally to the abyss of tragedy.
When a man agrees to join a gang of criminals, his life becomes a complicated labyrinth that he will have to leave in order to be saved.
A man in debt obtains a miraculous skin that makes all his wishes come true but at the cost of shortening his life.
