Marseille. Heaps of flowers and funeral wreaths… “A man who no longer defends his colors is no longer a man.”

A white-robed preacher wanders and sermonizes across African lands; European communists and CIA spies conspire out of mutual self-interest to engineer the appointment of an African bourgeois to a puppet…

Auguste Maroilleur, an elderly farmer, exploits 400 hectares of crop land with the help of his family, over which he rules with an iron hand. Things go awry the day…

In the early days of Nazi Germany, a powerful noble family must adjust to life under the new dictatorship regime.