Los fuegos de otoño

After the First World War, Bernard Jacquelain returns from the trenches with a medal, but disappointed at the lack of prospects. After the horrors witnessed at the front, he struggles to make a place for himself in the world of shady businesses that run freely in Paris. What can attract the beautiful and sensible Thérèse of the rebellious and somewhat shameless Bernard? Despite the disappointments and sufferings that this relationship can bring, Thérèse loves him and trusts that the force of love will eventually prevail. For ten years, thanks to easy money, they both enjoy the mediocre pleasures of bourgeois life, but when the drums of war sound again and the future becomes uncertain, everything begins to fall apart. Set in feverish and dissolute Paris between the wars, The Fires of Autumn is not only an intimate portrait of men and women in search of impossible freedom, but also an implacable and overwhelming portrayal of a social class that is prey to its privileges and customs.