Un piquenique chez Osiris

The year is 1898 Héloïse 9 years old comes from a family belonging to the antiDreyfus and antiSemitic Parisian high bourgeoisie In a spirit of revolt she begins a love affair with Maxime a young Jewish journalist During a terrible quarrel with her father the latter suffers a stroke and dies To get her away from Maxime her mother Mathilde and her cousin Olympe take Héloïse on a trip to the Orient After Cairo and the Pyramids they go up the Nile and cross the desert in a caravan