In which a confidential interview unfolds beneath the autumnal shadows of a château, revealing whispered suspicions and the weighty secrets of a broken family, as an ageing servant unburdens the dark history behind a noble household’s fallacies. The scene is set with delicate disclosures of hidden resentments and veiled acts of cruelty that haunt the living, compelling a bitter heir to seek justice by unearthing a sealed confession penned in the stillness of death.