Villa Des Roses

After her husband perishes on the Titanic, Louise Créteur leaves her son to work as a maid at the Villa des Roses, a dilapidated Parisian boardinghouse for eccentrics. She falls into a tumultuous romance with a German painter, Richard Grünewald, leading to an unwanted pregnancy and an abortion. As their love story unfolds against a backdrop of personal despair and impending global conflict, Louise's life is irrevocably altered by betrayal and the outbreak of World War I.