A young couple has just got married. He is an advertising artist in an agency on the Champs-Elysees. She is a window dresser in a department store on Boulevard Haussmann.
Assistant Director
Lamiel (Anna Karina) is a poor orphan girl who climbs her way to the social elite in this 19th-century costume drama. A doctor (Michel Bouquet) lives vicariously through Anna as he oversees the progress of his female protégé. Lamiel finds love with a young thief who steals into her bedroom after her marriage to a penniless count (Jean-Clause Brialy), and the two experience a romantic rendezvous of forbidden love after Lamiel goes from being a poor peasant woman to living a life of comparative luxury.
Policeman (uncredited)
Paula Nelson deberá investigar en Atlantic City (Francia) la muerte de su amante, investigación que se presentará peligrosa debido a la atención que ésta consigue despertar entre los mafiosos de la ciudad. Inspirada en el cine negro americano, Godard realiza un ejercicio de intriga de deliberada incoherencia narrativa.
