At the end of the 19th century, during a ball in Joinville, on the outskirts of Paris, Georges, a former delinquent working as a carpenter, meets Marie, a young woman connected to a criminal gang.

Simone Signoret
as Marie

Serge Reggiani
as Georges

Claude Dauphin
as Félix

Raymond Bussières
as Raymond

Odette Barencey
as

Loleh Bellon
as

Solange Certin
as

Jacqueline Dane
as

Dominique Davray
as

Paul Azaïs
as
CinemaSerf
Simone Signoret is on great form here as the beautiful barfly who gets herself mixed up in an internecine series of relationships with a gang of petty criminals. She's supposed to be courting "Raymond" (Raymond Bussières) but isn't averse to the odd flirtation and he gets quite irked when she spends...