Jean-Louis Brochard, a fraudster on the run, and William Boulanger, a dyer
who has just had his wife walk out on him, find themselves stranded on a
desert island when their plane crashes. When they fail to hit it off,
the two men try to go their separate ways, hoping never to see each other
again. But the island is not as deserted as it seems and it has a surprise
in store for them that will bind Jean-Louis and William together forever...
Science-fiction came into its own in B-movies of the 1950s, but it remains a respected and popular genre, bursting into the mainstream in the late 1970s.
It was American film noir and pulp fiction that kick-started the craze for thrillers in 1950s France and made it one of the most popular and enduring genres.