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.
Madeleine Sologne
as Florence Géraudy
Serge Reggiani
as Manu
Paul Meurisse
as Inspector Nansen
Enrico Glori
as Claude Géraudy
René Bourbon
as Doctor Pierre
Léonce Corne
as Judge
Paul Faivre
as Mayor
André Carnège
as Welford
Gabrielle Fontan
as Florence's mother
René Blancard
as Brigadier
Paul Demange
as Announcer
Édouard Delmont
as Innkeeper
