Résumé :
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Set in Paris, 1936, the newly elected Popular Front government in France and the civil war in Spain have sparked a turmoil of passion and confusion. Fyodor, a young White Russian army general, now an émigré in Paris, and his Greek wife, Arsinoé, are caught up in the mood of uncertainty. She befriends her communist neighbours, while he makes secret trips abroad and playfully cultivates his friends' anxieties. He doesn't deny that he is a spy, but for who? The anti-Communist White Russians, the young Soviet Union, the Nazis, or all three? Does he even know himself? For a man who loves his wife, he seems strangely willing to sacrifice her for the sake of a sordid conspiracy.
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