For five years, Jean has been in prison. Now he is on the street and doesn't know where to go. Until Tati Couderc takes him in. She not only lets him into her house but also into her bed. Jean, the 28-year-old son from a good family who has become a murderer, and Tati, the widowed farmer at 45, become a couple, an unlikely couple - but they are good together. They don't say many words and yet grow closer. And it could stay that way forever - if it weren't for the others: Tati's family, who begrudge her nothing, neither a roof over her head nor the young man, and the beautiful Félicie, very young, brazen, and greedy. Thus, mistrust creeps into this relationship, leading to an inevitable tragedy. Filmed in 1971 with Simone Signoret and Alain Delon in the lead roles.