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In the film directorial debut of Antoine Bourseiller, Marie (Daniele Delorme) is a barmaid and single mother to a child fathered by a black man. She is cautious to commit to another man until she nearly falls for Axel (Jacques Charrier), a younger man who has dreams of social-climbing ambition. The affair is doomed to failure when Marie becomes mistrustful and Axel is consumed with advancing his career.