When her partner kills someone, Mathilde, a schoolteacher, allows herself
to be arrested in his place so that he can escape. Her son Adrien can
make no sense of her behaviour and her lawyer, Nadège Rutter, assures
her that unless she cooperates with the police she is likely to remain in
prison for a long time. Mathilde keeps her silence and ends up sharing
a prison cell with another woman who has been ill-treated by life.
The weeks pass, but still she has no news of the man she loves. Now,
guilty or not, she is just a convict like all the rest, and must learn to
make the best of the predicament she has created for herself...
The cinema of Japan is noteworthy for its purity, subtlety and visual impact. The films of Ozu, Mizoguchi and Kurosawa are sublime masterpieces of film poetry.
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.