The storyline consists of two parallel stories: one about Joan of Arc, who once experienced God’s blessing, and one about a young woman, Pasha, who fell in love at first sight with a young man who asked her to dance one evening at a music event. What unites these two stories, apart from the fact that Pasha, a young actress with an unusual appearance and charisma, is offered the role of Joan of Arc?
The film shows the story of Joan of Arc in its mythologised form: a girl driven by love for France and a desire to free it from English rule. The call of the young maiden’s heart is presented as a vision of the Archangel Michael, Saint Margaret and Saint Catherine urging her to help save France.
Undeterred by the difficulty of realising this idea, Joan makes her way to the Dauphin Charles himself, convincing him of her devotion and her chosenness.

The other storyline is Pasha’s, whose object of love is a young man who is married and has a daughter. Swept away by her feelings, Pasha casts aside the formal and moral conventions of the institution of marriage. She tramples all the rules of propriety and lets the man live with her. Her desire is to save her beloved from an unhappy and meaningless existence with an overbearing woman who has “ruined” him, that is, his wife. But his wife, too, enters the fight for Pasha’s beloved, unwilling to lose her status as a married woman or deprive her daughter of a father, even though the marriage exists in name only.
Both heroines, Joan and Pasha, fight for their love and for a beloved object that is under siege. Both fail, yet neither retreats from love. Defeat has consequences for both young women. The winning side declares Joan of Arc a heretic, and Pasha a fool.