A beautiful young gold-digger mistakes a lowly hotel clerk as a rich and therefore worthwhile catch.

Nine years later, Jesse travels across Europe giving readings from a book he wrote about the night he spent in Vienna with Celine. After his reading in Paris, Celine finds…

In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with an opera singer, Song Liling – but Song is not at all who Gallimard thinks.

An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.

Glimpses of Chaucer penning his famous work are sprinkled through this re-enactment of several of his stories.