Description

In the peak of the Belle Epoque, François Dubon brings a well ordered existence within the bourgeois groups of Paris’ eighth arrondissement. When not occupied with his affluent lawful training, he likes both a relationship to his aristocratic wife, Geneviève, and gratifying morning activities with his mistress, Madeleine. He's never late for these five o’clock visits or for family-dinner at seven—until a mystical widow involves his company by having an uncommon request.The woman demands that only Dubon may save her simple friend, an Army chief called Dreyfus who had been convicted of spying and exiled to Devil’s Area 2 yrs earlier. Not wanting to fail the appealing widow, the gallant Dubon makes some perfunctory inquiries. But when he finds the existence of the key military document withheld from the defense throughout the trial, he embarks on an obsessive quest for justice that upends his satisfied life.Donning a borrowed military standard, Dubon goes undercover in to the dirty world of counterespionage, where his inconsistent hours alert his forbidding spouse and create his mistress progressively aloof.