The Devils

Seventeenth-century France, a time of war between Catholics and Huguenots. Cardinal Richelieu wants to destroy the white walls of the city of Loudun. But Louis XIII favors the city and Father Grandier, who came to power after the death of the governor. Meanwhile, in Loudun, the hunchbacked abbess of the convent, who is madly in love with Grandier, declares that the devil has possessed her.