Jean, the son of Toine, a market gardener in Marseille, would have
married Ginette without a moment's hesitation, were it not for his
chance meeting with a singer, who becomes his femme fatale. His
godfather intervenes in the nick of time to unmask the dangerous
temptress who has already ruined him. All that Jean has to
do is to ask Ginette to forgive him.
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.
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.