Inspector (uncredited)
Recién salido de la cárcel, Lucas decide cambiar de vida y ser un respetable ciudadano. Pero cuando entra en un banco es secuestrado por un atracador. Sin embargo, la policía piensa, dados sus antecedentes, que Lucas está implicado en el atraco. Años después el propio Veber dirigiría un remake en Hollywood de esta película con Martin Short y Nick Nolte.
In the 1930s, in a village in Gironde, Guillou, a young boy in need of affection, nicknamed the Sagouin, unhappy and in need of affection, leads a life of anguish and sadness in a sinister castle. He exasperates his mother who sees in him only the hated reflection of a husband she only married to become a baroness. Thanks to the kindness of the village teacher, Guillou glimpses for a moment the existence of another world, of gentleness and tenderness.