

At the end of the 19th century, during a ball in Joinville, on the outskirts of Paris, Georges, a former delinquent working as a carpenter, meets Marie, a young woman connected to a criminal gang.
Director: Jacques Becker
Writers: Jacques Companéez, Jacques Becker






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