Le meurtre d'une âme

A wintry night in January 1871 blankets the noble Château de Solgrès in snow, its towering façades and illuminated windows standing in stark contrast to the frozen landscape beyond. Inside, German soldiers fill the great hall with mirth, their pipes and wine a defiant celebration amid the recent defeat of France. The atmosphere crackles with tension, as the occupiers’ carefree cruelty clashes with the lingering pride of the aristocratic household.

Through the drifts steps Louise Bellard, a young woman from the nearby village, her breath forming clouds in the cold air. Barely twenty and newly wed to a guard who vanished on the battlefield, she arrives clutching a secret that could change everything—though she hides it behind a thin veil of anger and grief. As she peers through the half‑drawn curtain at the foreign revelry, she is forced to confront a world where loyalty, loss, and survival are tangled together in the shadows of the war‑torn castle.