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Paula Nelson goes to Atlantic City to meet her lover, Richard Politzer, but finds him dead and decides to investigate his death. In her hotel room, she meets Typhus, whom she ends up knocking out. His corpse is later found in the apartment of David Goodis, a writer. Paula is arrested and interrogated. From then on, she encounters many gangsters.

Cast

Anna Karina

as Paula Nelson

László Szabó

as Paul Widmark

Jean-Pierre Léaud

as Donald Siegel

Marianne Faithfull

as Marianne Faithfull

Yves Afonso

as David Goodis

Claude Bakka

as Man with Marianne Faithfull (uncredited)

Daniel Bart

as Policeman (uncredited)

Jean-Pierre Biesse

as Richard Nixon (uncredited)

Jean-Claude Bouillon

as Inspector Aldrich (uncredited)

Fernand Coquet

as Bill Poster (uncredited)

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