Imprisoned as an accessory to murder, Catherine gives birth to a son she conceived in prison. Eighteen years later, her sentence served, she is reunited with the boy, Simon, who has remained in an orphanage the entire time. She is accompanied by toothsome prison buddy Sarah, and gradually these people whose lives have been frozen in time "thaw" and get on with the business of living.
Catherine Deneuve
as Catherine Berger
Anouk Aimée
as Sarah Gordon
Charles Denner
as L'avocat
Francis Huster
as Patrick
Colette Baudot
as Lucienne Lanot
Jean-Jacques Briot
as Simon Berger
Jean-Pierre Kalfon
as Le bijouter
Valérie Lagrange
as
Manuella Papatakis
as La fille de Sarah
Georges Staquet
as
Jacques Villeret
as L'agent immobilier
Niels Arestrup
as Henri Lanot
