A writer leaves his upper-class life and journeys with a woman claiming to be his sister, and her two friends.

Into the solitary life of middle-aged hitman, Victor Meynard, come two people: Antoine, a youth who becomes Victor’s apprentice, and Renée, a bold thief Victor’s been hired to kill because…

It’s late 17th century. The viola da gamba player Monsieur de Sainte Colombe comes home to find that his wife died while he was away. In his grief he builds…