خلاصه داستان : رینیر پس از جنگ جهانی اول به ملک خود بازگشته است. خانواده اش از او می خواهند که با امیلی، ازدواج کند. در همین حال، رولان زنی که در جریان جنگ در پاریس با او آشنا شد، او را متقاعد می‌کند تا پول زیادی را در «آکادمی دو زیبایی» سرمایه‌گذاری کند.

After World War I, widower Renier has returned to his estate Horlebecq. His sole diversion is his correspondence with the Parisian Rolande, who he met during the war. Even though his family is pressuring him into marrying his sister-in-law Emily, Renier stays obsessed with Rolande and even visits her in Paris. She manages to persuade him to invest large sums of money into the "Academie de Beauté" in Paris. His reckless investments and breaking off his engagement with Emily leads to unbearable tensions at Horlebecq...

خلاصه داستان : یک معلم مدرسه مجذوب یکی از دانش آموزانش می شود.او که از عشق خود خوشنود و راضی نیست تلاش می کند با تغییر کار و خانه خود از او فرار کند.کار برای قوه قضاییه موجب می شود او با دانش آموز سابق خود روبرو شود و...

Govert Miereveld is a lawyer from a small Flemish town who also teaches in a school for girls. He harbors a secret love for one of his young students, Fran, whom he loses touch with after her graduation. Some time later, Miereveld has to attend an autopsy, and the shock of the experience deeply affects his mental balance. He finds out - or he believes so - that Fran has become a popular singer. He arranges to meet her to finally reveal his feelings. An ambiguous but perhaps tragic denouement follows which might be a figment of the protagonist's disturbed mind.