Henri Faust, retiring after 50 years as a professor in a circa-1700 French university, despairs at the ravages of old age … whereupon Mephistopheles, agent of Lucifer, appears as a…

Port of Marseille, France, recently liberated from the German yoke. Caught as stowaways aboard a ship, Manon, a young woman who was accused of collaborating with the Nazis, and Robert,…