When talking about Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette, what immediately comes to mind are lace, tall wigs, flamboyant clothes and colours, Versailles, or… the guillotine. Here, between these two extremes, exists a middle ground, a period of time seldom explored: the few months when the last king and queen of France were imprisoned, with their two young children, in a black castle on the outskirts of Paris, awaiting their executions. A brief and condensed period where, amidst violence and harassment, all masks fell off: those of two royals, as public and private figures; that of the old regime; that of a History that finally turned the page; and that of God who, from then on, was eclipsed by the shadows, leaving man entirely alone.

　　男星不堪压力，临阵辞演舞台剧，独自逃到海边小镇水疗按摩。但有些事情注定逃不了，他在那里意外重遇旧情人。她以教琴为业，育有一女；他薄有名气，却无人分忧。以为已经淡忘对方，竟是再见如故，十五年前错失的一切，再次摆在面前。史提芬毕西（《她的一生》）完成他的「劳资冲突三部曲」后，转而描绘一份不合时令的感情，透过优美画面及动人琴音，温柔细腻表现久别重逢的爱与痛，并有吉翁卡列和影后艾芭诺宜娃查倾情演绎，令故事更添韵味。