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
Marie
Serge Reggiani
Georges
Claude Dauphin
Félix
Raymond Bussières
Raymond
Odette Barencey
Loleh Bellon
Solange Certin
Jacqueline Dane
