故事發生在1955南特工人罷工期間。鋼鐵工人Guilbaud是罷工者之一,他租了一個房間,房東Margot Langlois是一個寡婦,她同情罷工者,雖然她自己是上層階級。Guilbaud有一個懷孕的女友叫Violette Pelletier,他覺得情感變淡了,想與之分手。Guilbaud遇見了一個美麗的上層階級女孩Edith Leroyer,她不幸嫁給了一個富有但無力和神經質的商人,她自甘做一個兼職妓女。Guilbaud不知道她正是寡婦的女兒。他第一次在街上遇見她,一天晚上她出現在他的房間裡,只穿著她的毛皮大衣。他們立刻墜入愛河,但他們的激情只持續了一個晚上,因為在示威期間,他被警察槍殺,死在Edith的懷裡。
A film musical in which every line is sung. The frame is about workers during a strike. They also prepare and perform a demonstration. Two personal relations develop against this background. François abandons his pregnant girlfriend Violette. She feels treated even more unjust when he tries to defend and excuse his behaviour. He had met a very beautiful over-class girl, Edith, and both were immediately overwhelmed by genuine and reciprocal passion. Edith lived in a very unsatisfactory marriage. She was the daughter of the widow from which François rented his room. Nevertheless, he met her in the street, where she just opened her fur coat and was starch naked under it. They will be together in great passion for just one night and day. At the demonstration François is shot by the police and dies in Edith's arms. - The music is closer to opera than in any other film musical by Jacques Demy. But the greatest difference is that he has devoted much more effort to the task of instructing the...Written byMax Scharnberg, Stockholm, Sweden