While enjoying coffee with a friend, poet Orphée (Jean Marais) becomes involved in an altercation with some students that results in tragedy and police involvement. A woman arrives in a Rolls Royce and insists he join her, ostensibly as a witness after she has an injured man placed in the vehicle. Assuming they’re headed to a hospital, he's surprised to discover the man—Cegeste (Edouard Dermithe)—is already deceased,…