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Moreau is the wealthy but bored wife of an industrialist who, while waiting for her son's (Haudepin) music lesson to finish, hears the scream of a woman in a nearby cafe. She sees a man being taken away from the body of a woman. Fascinated by the incident, she begins to frequent the cafe and soon meets Belmondo, an employee of her husband. For a number of days they meet and discuss the murder. Belmondo, however, realizes that she has her own death wish and leaves her. Directed by ocean-hopping theatrical director Peter Brook (LORD OF THE FLIES), the film features an interesting amalgam of French New Wave elements so much in evidence in 1960. Moreau was just about to appear in Truffaut's masterpiece JULES AND JIM, Belmondo was to star in Godard's classic BREATHLESS, and cowriter Duras had just scripted Resnais's HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR. The film was coproduced by screenwriter Jacques Companeez's (THE LOWER DEPTHS, CASQUE D'OR) company.