A title card reads 'Orlean FRANCE 1432' over a castle at night, then a man in a long blonde wig and lipstick, playing a noblewoman in a dark cloak, walks a candlelit stone hall delivering a tearful monologue to an oil portrait of a mustachioed nobleman, with repeated cutaways to the painting. A second man in a ruffled period collar appears at a doorway, and at the end she returns in a white gown waving a fan and a letter.