FRANCE – 1970 – 124 min – Drama – Thriller
Director : Claude CHABROL
Starring : Stéphane AUDRAN, Jean-Pierre CASSEL, Michel BOUQUET
SYNOPSIS
Helene (S. Audran) is a good mother with a checkered past as a stripper and barmaid. She divorces her ne’er-do-well husband after he attacks her and her son over breakfast. Her former in-laws blame her for causing her husband’s addiction and set out to remove their grandchild from Helen’s custody; Thwarted by the courts, they hire a seedy penniless operative, Paul, to destroy her reputation.
Paul moves into her rooming house and begins to insinuate himself into her life, hatching darker and more convoluted plots to implicate Helene in everything from drugs to a bizarre kidnapping plot.