Xavier Maly

A novelist attends the trial of a woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France. But as the trial continues, her own family history, doubts, and fears about motherhood are steadily dislodged as the life story of the accused is gradually revealed.

Two con men try to settle their rivalry by betting on who can be the first to swindle a young American heiress out of $50,000.