Alauda Films

Anna, a young single mother from a modest background, marries Guillaume, a brilliant surgeon from a well-known middle-class family in Marseille. She couldn't be happier. Then Guillaume's ex-wife's body is found and he becomes the prime suspect.

In 1965, Monique Case, who claimed her moral freedom, was wrongly accused by misogynist cops. She will be saved from the guillotine by a shy and reserved examining magistrate who chooses to rebel against the machismo of the judicial hierarchy and of the time.