Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and Montparnasse et Levallois (Godard) are stories of love, flirtation and prostitution; Place d'Etoile (Rohmer) concerns a haberdasher and his umbrella; and La Muette (Chabrol), a bourgeois family and earplugs.
Barbara Wilkin
as Katherine (segment "Saint-Germain-des-Prés")
Jean-François Chappey
as Jean (segment "Saint-Germain-des-Prés")
Jean-Pierre Andréani
as Raymond (segment "Saint-Germain-des-Prés")
Nadine Ballot
as Odile (segment "Gare du Nord")
Barbet Schroeder
as Jean-Pierre (segment "Gare du Nord")
Gilles Quéant
as Stranger (segment "Gare du Nord")
Micheline Dax
as Prostitute (segment "Rue Saint-Denis")
Claude Melki
as Léon (segment "Rue Saint-Denis")
Jean-Michel Rouzière
as Jean-Marc (segment "Place de l'Etoile")
Marcel Gallon
as Victim (segment "Place de l'Etoile")
Joanna Shimkus
as Monica (segment "Montparnasse-Levallois")
Philippe Hiquilly
as Roger (segment "Montparnasse-Levallois")