A seminar in Auvergne will change everything for Paul Neville.
With his marriage faltering, he falls in love with a neighbour.
But on the day when the two lovers decide to run away and start a new
life the young woman mysteriously disappears. Paul is suspected
of foul play...
In the 1920s French cinema was at its most varied and stylish - witness the achievements of Abel Gance, Marcel L'Herbier, Jean Epstein and Jacques Feyder.
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.