Mensonges

Marie Leroux who is married to Charles an honest understanding country doctor lives an uneventful rather monotonous lifeHer husband is a kind man but he does not give her any thrill or excitement One day Marie meets Olivier DumasBeaulieu a handsome industrialist who is in the process of leaving his fiancée Corinne despite her being pregnant by him It is easy for the confirmed womanizer he is to seduce Marie who very foolishly thinks she has found true love Shortly afterward Charles is shot dead by Olivier while the two men were having a quarrel about Marie The latter who finds the corpse believes her husband has committed suicide Which is not the polices opinion and Marie is arrested and condemned to ten years in prison Annihilated by such unfair treatment and worse by the separation from her beloved eightyearold daughter she still manages to survive and to serve her sentence