When his wife leaves him, a young French actor, François Combe, moves to New York to work for a television company. One evening, he meets an attractive young woman, Kay Larsi, in a bar. She is as lost and unhappy as he is, alone after her friend and flatmate Jessie left her.

Bringing a French melancholy to the streets of 1960s New York, Marcel Carné’s passionate adaptation of Georges Simenon’s novel is a jazz-infused dance between reality and fantasy. As the tempestuous lovers roam from motel rooms to seedy bars, you might just spot Robert De Niro in his screen debut.