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...