Anne and Thomas are two of a kind, childhood friends who both lost
their parents during a disastrous Alpine expedition. Now in their
mid twenties, Anne has learned to live with her loss, but Thomas
pursues a life of self-destructive excess in an attempt to blot out the
past. When his neighbour, a single mother, dies, making
her young son Gregoire an orphan, Thomas is reminded
of his own situation. Knowing too well
what Gregoire's feelings are, Thomas and Anne decide to take him under
their wing, and in doing so manage to rebuild their own lives...
In the 1940s, the shadowy, skewed visual style of 1920s German expressionism was taken up by directors of American thrillers and psychological dramas, creating that distinctive film noir look.
Continental Films, quality cinema under the Nazi Occupation
At the time of the Nazi Occupation of France during WWII, the German-run company Continental produced some of the finest films made in France in the 1940s.