Pierre Lestringuez

The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn, where they spend the day.

After her father's death and her uncle having drunk all the inheritance, Virginia is left alone. She is accepted by a family of bohemians but a quarrel between the bohemians and the peasants coerce her to flee the peasants' riot. ...

A man races to save his son's life, but death - incarnated in the child's imagination as the titular Elf King - calls unceasingly.