At the Café des Poètes in Paris, a fight breaks out between the poet Orphée (Jean Marais) and Also a Set of resentful upstarts. A rival poet, Cègeste (Edouard Dermit), is murdered, and also a mysterious princess (María Casares) insists on accepting Orpheus and away the body in her rollsroyce. Orphée soon finds himself in the underworld. Orpheus leaks from the car back to the land of the living to become obsessed with the car radio. This picture is the central element of Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy, which consists of The Blood of a Poet (1930), Orpheus (1950) and Testament of Orpheus (1960).