Writer
Madame Robert makes ends meet by running a boarding house, as her colonel widow's pension is not enough. A Norwegian pensioner, being young and athletic, starts doing gymnastics in the nude, in plain view of all respectable guests. Instead of being horrified, that leads everyone to express their inner selfs, as well as outer skin. Madame Robert can't take this, and expels all the guests, save the young Norwegian man, whom she considers a pure youth who didn't intend to start an orgy. Soon, she falls to his manly charms, and then invites back her lodgers to make the boarding house more pleasant, or rather, a "hotel de plaisir".
Screenplay
Éliane and Juliette share a suburban pavilion which shelters their love affair. One day, Éliane picked up an injured man in her car: Pierre, a mobster who had just escaped. She decides to hide the fugitive in the house, then heals his wounds. While Éliane soon succumbs to the gangster's charm, the latter discovers that Juliette has a lover, Gérard. Pierre then uses this situation to his advantage to sow discord between the two women and manipulate them as he pleases. But they will rebel (Le Chat Qui Fume).
