KINGS AND QUEEN tells two separate stories. On one hand, the crowning achievement of Nora Cotterelle, young and bereaved, soon to marry a suitable man at last! On the other hand, the story of the decline and fall of Ismael Vuillard, one of Nora's former husbands, committed to a psychiatric home by mistake and destined to end his imprisonment in a worse state then when he began. Their stories intersect for a moment, when Nora visits Ismael and asks him to adopt her son, Elias. Then diverge again. We follow Nora as she is forced to deal with the suffering of her sick father, an old writer. Trapped all alone in Grenoble, Nora is besieged. Long-buried memories surface...