The story of Marie-Martine ,told backwards.

Novelist Loic Limousin, passing through a little provincial town,meets again Marie-Martine, his book's heroine.She tells him how she met a good boy ,Maurice ,after the drama which led her to jail.Maurice is currently in Paris ,in his uncle Parnisse's house .While reading Limousin's book , he wonders whether the heroine of the story might be the woman he fell in love with.He goes to the novelist's place ,but his wife tells him ,in accordance with her husband's instructions, that it's pure fiction .—dbdumonteil