In 1920s Belgium, Kamil and Hassan leave a famous theatre company to create something new. With psychologist-turned-marketer André Beaumont, they recruit six actors — including the luminous Mona and the enigmatic Henri — and achieve spectacular success staging exotic love stories for European audiences hungry for novelty. When the small town of Dinant becomes obsessed with the actors, trapping them in a cage of adoration, André builds a merchandise empire from their beauty. But cinema arrives, the company collapses, and André — now revealed as a manipulator — marries and degrades Mona. Henri, who has loved Mona in silence for a decade, kills André and rescues her. Six years later, Mona runs a coffee shop. Henri is a hairdresser. They meet every morning at seven minutes past seven. A spilled coffee, a sixteen-year-old confession, and a wedding on the fifth of May complete a story that asks: whose fault was it?