Paradis Perdu / Four Flights to Love

An exploration of how war transforms a man's life and relationship with women in interwar France. In pre-1914 Paris, an aspiring artist falls in love with a dressmaker. After she dies in childbirth he volunteers to take part in a dangerous mission during the First World War. Badly wounded, he nonetheless recovers, and returns home to bring up his only daughter. Their happiness is soon threatened by the onset of World War II.