Claude Géraudy, a banker responsible for a financial scandal, is forced to flee and hides in the mountains with the help of Manu, a young smuggler. Florence, his wife, refuses to join him. Desperate Claude commits suicide, Florence then decides to pass her suicide off as murder in order to receive her late husband's life insurance.

• Regina Films
• Gladiator Productions
• Madeleine Sologne
• Serge Reggiani
• Paul Meurisse
• Enrico Glori
• René Bourbon
• Léonce Corne
• Paul Faivre
• André Carnège