Overview

In Lyon, where many are unemployed, Marie is a prostitute who loves her work: she's thoughtful and exuberant toward clients old and young, slim or flabby. One night, a homeless man sleeps in the foyer of her apartment house; she gives him a hot meal, then a place on the floor to sleep by her radiator, then she offers herself. She falls in love, giving him new life, clothes, a place to live. When he grouses that he must bar hop while she uses the flat for her work, she finds them a larger flat. He grows restless, seducing a manicurist and pressing her to prostitution. He's arrested for procuring, so Marie must decide what to do; he, too, must face the consequences of his choices.

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Cast

Anouk Grinberg

Marie Abarth

Gérard Lanvin

Jeannot

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

Sanguine

Olivier Martinez

Jean-François

Dominique Valadié

Gilberte

Jacques François

2nd client

Robert Hirsch

Mr. Hervé

Bernard Fresson

Director of personnel

Jacques Gamblin

4th client

Bernard Le Coq

inspecteur Marvier

Mathieu Kassovitz

1st client

Michel Galabru

3rd client