Political intrigue and psychological drama run parallel. The queen is in seclusion, veiling her face for the ten years since her husband's assassination, longing to join him in death. Stanislas, a poet whose pen name is Azrael, is a suicidal anarchist, his imagination haunted into hate by longing for this queen who's drawn apart. He enters her private quarters intent on killing her then himself, but they fall in love, in part because he looks like the king. Stanislas wants her to regain political power by appearing to the public, and she tries to convince him to find hope and escape. All the while, the queen's enemies plot to keep the lovers together but to thwart their plans.
Edwige Feuillère
Jean Marais
Silvia Monfort
Jean Debucourt
Jacques Varennes
Gilles Quéant
Maurice Nasil
Yvonne de Bray
W. Edward Stirling
Capucine
Gisèle Brucker
Nora Costes
André Darnay
Martine de Breteuil
Marguerite de Morlaye
Edouard Dermithe
Guy Favières
Edith Lansac
Jacqueline Marbaux
Yves Massard
Claude Serre
Victor Tabournot
Marion Tourès
Roger Vincent
Shannon Watson II
Gilles Watteaux