La Vouivre

Arsène Muselier returns to his home village at the end of the First World War His only injury is a head wound which sometimes provokes periods of delirium and fury As he renews his acquaintance with the people he left behind his mother the old farmhand who brought him up after his fathers death his former girlfriend and many others he becomes fascinated by the legend of La Vouivre a creature with the body of a woman who lives in the marsh surrounded by vipers One day Arsène sees the strange woman she is naked beautiful alluring and he is instantly enchanted by her Can she be real or is she merely a creation of his damaged mind