The little soldier

La petite soldate will follow the story of Stravinsky and Ramuz's 1917 melodrama, but with a few variations:

The soldier returning home on leave is a soldier. It's not the Great War, but the Algerian War. His father and fiancée are waiting for him, but on the way the soldier meets the devil, and exchanges his violin for a magic book that gives everything. She's happy with her book. But no one at home recognizes her: neither her father, nor her fiancée. She becomes rich, but can no longer enjoy life at all. Yes, thanks to the devil's book, she has "everything", but "everything" is also "nothing": she should have been more discerning.