John Day is a bank manager and lives with his wife Maria Day. The couple has recently lost their only daughter. Maria is always depressed and never opens up with anyone. One day when John is away for office work, a courier-boy enters the house and takes Maria as a captive, then a series of misfortunes start to happen.。A renowned, relentless Paris detective takes his first vacation in 11 years at a small inn in the French countryside. There he meets and falls in love with the hotelier's daughter, who is betrothed to a neighboring farmer but hopes to marry him and move to Paris. On the evening of their engagement, both the fiancée and the farmer disappear. What has happened to them? Who is res...。