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Thérèse and Denise’s parents have just passed away and Thérèse delays entering a convent to take care of her younger sister. Max, a young unrepentant seducer, takes advantage of Denise, who then tries to commit suicide. Thérèse requests that he marry Denise, but Max plans to seduce Thérèse instead.

Even if Jean-Pierre Melville’s third feature was not a personal project but one that he used to fund his own studio in Paris, his film noir style and his existential interest in moral decay come to the fore in this love triangle. Starring Juliette Gréco and Philippe Lemaire as a seedy homme fatal.