خلاصه داستان : جین دیاز، بعد از شرکت در جنگ جهانی اول، با صحنه های وحشتناک بسیار زیادی روبرو شد. او به قدری تحت تاثیر جنگ قرار گرفت که بعد از بازگشت به خانه، عشق و لذات دنیوی را رها کرد و تمام وقتش را به تحقیقات علمی اختصاص داد. هدف او از این تحقیقات علمی اختراع دستگاهی بود که از وقوع جنگ جلوگیری کند. او اکنون تصور می کند که موفق شده است اما دولت قصد دارد اختراع او را از بین ببرد و...

After serving in the trenches of World War I, Jean Diaz recoils with such horror that he renounces love and personal pleasure to immerse himself in scientific research, seeking a machine to prevent war. He thinks he has succeeded, but the government subverts his discovery, and Europe slides with seeming inevitability toward World War II. In desperation, Diaz summons the ghosts of the war dead from the graves and fields of France to give silent, accusing protest.

خلاصه داستان : ترز زنی که از ازدواجش با مرد کسل کننده ای که او را دوست ندارد ناراضی است، قصد دارد با افزایش آهسته دوز داروی او از شر او خلاص شود...

Thérèse is living in a provincial town, unhappily married to Bernard, a dull, pompous man whose only interest is preserving his family name and property. They live in an isolated country mansion surrounded by servants. Early in her marriage her only comforts are her fondness for Bernard's pine-tree forest, which was her primary reason for marrying him, and her love for her sister-in-law and Bernard's half-sister, Anne. The movie recounts in flashback the circumstances that led to her being charged with poisoning her husband.