At the Café des Poètes in Paris, a fight breaks out between the poet Orphée (Jean Marais) and Also a group of resentful upstarts. A rival poet, Cègeste (Edouard Dermit), is killed, and a mysterious princess (María Casares) insists upon accepting Orpheus and away the body within her rollsroyce. Finds himself in the underworld. Orpheus leaks from the car straight back into the land of the living, only to eventually become obsessed with all the car radio. This movie is the central part of Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy, which consists of The Blood of a Poet (1930), Orpheus (1950) and Testament of Orpheus (1960).