INDEPENDENT FILM FOR INDEPENDENT MINDS

After four years of separation, Chico Saroyan (Albert Rémy) arrives at a club where his brother Edouard (Charles Aznavour), a former concert hall pianist, plays under the name Charlie Koller. Chico is being pursued by two hat-wearing, pipe-smoking thugs with whom he pulled a job, and then gypped out of the loot. Soon enough, Charlie is caught up in his brother's problems. His obsession with career having driven away his wife, Térésa (Nicole Berger), Charlie lives in a modest apartment with his kid brother, Fido (Richard Kanayan). He carries on a casual affair with Clarisse (Michèle Mercier), a prostitute who lives next door and helps care for Fido. Meanwhile, he begins a deeper relationship with a barmaid, Léna (Marie Dubois). Just as it looks as though Charlie and Léna's love may enable Charlie to exorcise the ghosts of his past, the story erupts into mayhem, kidnapping, murder, and heartbreak.