Agnes, a lonely teenage girl, and her father befriend an escaped convict, named Joseph, who arrives at their farm in Brittany, France. When Joseph develops an attraction to Agnes, her father threatens to break up the union.

Melvyn Douglas
as Frederick Larbaud

Patricia Gozzi
as Agnes Larbaud

Dean Stockwell
as Joseph

Gunnel Lindblom
as Karen

Leslie Sands
as First Gendarme

Murray Evans
as Young Gendarme

Sylvia Kay
as Genevieve

Peter Sallis
as Armand

Christopher Sandford
as Albert - Young man at wedding

Ellen Pollock
as Landlady