John Middleton Murry visits France to finalize the publication of a collection of his late wife, Katherine Mansfield's, letters and journals. The publisher's girlfriend Marie (who physically resembles Mansfield) and Murry become friends. Marie gradually learns that Murry not only profited greatly from his publication of Mansfield's writings, but that as her editor he sacrificed the real Mansfield to his own romantic dream, and even that he published her letters and journals against her expressed wishes.
John Gielgud
as John Middleton Murry
Jane Birkin
as Marie Taylor, Katherine Mansfield
Féodor Atkine
as Andre de Sarry
Simon Ward
as young John
Louba Guertchikoff
as Lisa
Maurice Chevit
as Alain
Mireille Alcantara
as Violetta
Leonard Pezzino
as Alfredo
