jeanne dorè (1938)

france 1908: in a provincial town, cholet, a young man asks for cash help from a fat bourgeois on behalf of his mistress, who is burdened with debts and when he denies him the help, loses the light of reason and kills him . the trial that follows is sentenced to twenty years of deportation, but does not confess the reason for the murder. when she asks her elderly mother to be able to greet the woman, the cause of her ruin and who also refuses to see him for fear of compromising herself, it is precisely the old mother who, taking advantage of the darkness, pretends to be the beloved woman, promising eternal love to the condemned.