Coffin Island

- Season 1

(1979)

1916: at the Besançon war hospital, nurse Véronique d'Hergemont has just been informed of the death of her husband, from whom she has been separated for 14 years. She had married the latter against the wishes of her father, who considered Count Vorski as an adventurer unworthy of her. What Véronique had quickly understood. Following a terrible tragedy, she had separated from him definitively. Véronique will find herself drawn into a dark and mysterious affair, after a film screening intended to change her mind but which disturbs her deeply: on the screen appear her ...

During the crossing that takes her to the Thirty Coffins Island, Véronique learns that her father had faked a shipwreck in order to kidnap her grandson from Vorski, whom he hated. It was Honorine who raised François. This reveals to Véronique the identity of the corpse and the prediction attached to it: the death of the count... Then that of all the inhabitants of the island. Shortly after, d'Hergemont gets killed in cold blood by a 14-year-old child. Wouldn't it be François, the murderer, heir to the instincts of his father Vorski, and who fled with an accomplice? ...

The inhabitants of the island, wishing to flee, have piled into two large boats, when a man and a teenager, in a canoe, throw bombs at the sinking boats. Véronique and the three Archignat sisters remain on the island; the threat of the druids becoming clearer, Véronique takes refuge on a separate part of the island, connected by a bridge which she burns. Once the flames are extinguished she observes, horrified, that, on the island, the Archignat sisters are crucified, on three trees.

Guided by the dog Aramis, Véronique finds her son François locked in a cell dug into the cliff, his tutor is a prisoner just below. The tutor dies, thrown into the void by François, but Véronique understands that the murderer is pretending to be her son. She manages to deliver her son but when they try to flee by sea, he disappears again. Once back to the house, she faces Vorski, whom she believed was dead.

Véronique comes face to face with her husband Vorski, whom she thought was dead and whom she hated. She learns that he had another wife with whom he had a son, the murderer of his father. Véronique grasps Vorski's diabolical plan when he reads the prophecy to possess the "Pierre-Dieu": Abel and Cain must kill each other under the eyes of Abel's mother.

In accordance with the prophecy, three men bind Véronique to the trunk of the oak, when an immense glow sets the horizon ablaze. The light seems to spring forth to indicate the location of the Pierre-Dieu. While Otto and Conrad, Vorski's two accomplices, abandon him to his fantasies, the latter eliminates them with two arrows. Vorski learns how Elfride had woken up, tied to the tree trunk, in place of Véronique, when the strangers freed her. For her part, Elfride soon discovers that it is Eric, her son, who is dead and not François.