The action takes place in a typical French town in the early sixties, at the end of the Algerian war. In a fit of criminal madness, a married, affluent and respected town-citizen named Gregoire Duval kills a young woman who spurns his advances. As no one witnesses him committing this crime, he chooses to remain silent while the girl's boyfriend, a young Algerian farm worker, is wrongly convicted. In a strange twist of fate, the killer becomes one of the jurors of the trial and suddenly does everything in his power to defend the wrongly accused young man.
Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Grégoire Duval
Isabelle Habiague
Geneviève Duval
Pascal Elso
Capitaine Valard
Igor Mendjisky
Laurent Duval
Éric Naggar
Le juge Hoppenot
Lahcen Razzougui
Khader Boualam
Jean-Yves Chatelais
Labory
