Julien is a clockmaker with destructive impulses who decides to blackmail Madame X, a rich, attractive woman who traffics in stolen antiques. What he doesn’t know is that she has an even more dangerous secret that leads him to Marie, with whom he had fallen in love a year earlier.
Emmanuelle Béart
as Marie
Jerzy Radziwiłowicz
as Julien Müller
Anne Brochet
as Madame X
Bettina Kee
as Adrienne
Olivier Cruveiller
as l'éditeur
Mathias Jung
as le concierge
Nicole Garcia
as l'amie
