Like the wife of King Arthur in the legend, the main character in Ginevra, actress Cecilia Linné, is a figure of inspiration torn between two worlds and two men. She gives up her “contract” with society and its entanglement of love, work and money.

Emmanuel, 37, lives in Paris with his wife, Irene, and his daughter Anne, 14 years old. He accidentally discovers that Irene is receiving mail in the remaining mail. She refuses to follow Emmanuel to Italy where he has to write a biography of Filippo Lippi. Distraught, Emmanuel decided to leave immediately for Florence.

While chaos and the impending doom of World War II are just over the horizon, the members of an impoverished French family are occupied with their own concerns. Most notable among them are the romance of the teenaged girl with a young socialist and the boy's friendship with a German boy.

A staging of Eugène Ionesco's play "Rhinoceros" by mmanuel Demarcy-Mota.