Hélène, jeune étudiante en médecine, est amoureuse de l'aspirant musicien Pierre Regnier, dont le père, un chirurgien de renom, l'exhorte à abandonner la musique pour la médecine. Incapable de résister à son père, Pierre se tue, incitant la Madeleine en deuil à oublier la romance et à consacrer sa vie à la guérison.

Paul Martin is the subservient brown-nosing youngster who needs quick advancement up the hierarchy to pay for the modern lifestyle he is buying on credit. Seeing that marrying his immediate superior's daughter will not get him the results he wants, he begins plotting the demise of the head of the company. The company itself specializes in holiday travel and unscrupulously brutalizes its customers for maximum profit, spending more thought on publicity gimmicks than customer service...

西蒙的父亲一个声名狼藉的歹徒, 他不想和父亲一样要在监狱里度过余生，所以他设法逃脱,在叔叔的帮助下，他在故乡找到了一个藏身的地方，然而他必须与一个从事勒索的女子Franoise共同住。一天他们的藏身之处被警察发现了，西蒙和Franoise苍茫逃走。就在他们亡命天涯的同时，两人之间产生了一段可歌可泣的爱情......
关于导演：克劳德．雷路许（Claude Lelouch）
奖不完的法国国宝级大导演，从他在坎城或威尼斯影展的年表中，不是开幕片、闭幕片，就是竞赛片，就可看出他在国际影坛的崇高地位。
出道至今拍片已超过四十部，尤其对男女之间爱情的纠葛描述最为精湛，旁及战争、社会百态、文化落差的探讨，风格唯美独领风骚。他以剧中演员移位、绕摄取景方式，更显雄伟气势最具特色。

Sophie Tatischeff's short film set in the small town of Sainte-Sévère-sur-Indre, three decades after its use in her father's film 'Jour de Fête'. The conversation from a typical village bar is transplanted to a patisserie with particularly tempting tartlets: 'No reason for us not to have another' says one habitué; 'no more for me thanks,' says another. 'A shortbread at this time of day?' asks the woman behind the counter.

1973 film by Fred Zinnemann