In a small Breton town, a 10-year-old girl is found murdered. René, her art teacher, a professional painter, is the last person to have seen her alive. The inspector in charge of the investigation immediately questions him. In this small provincial town where people all know each other and regularly meet at the Bar des Amis, René is increasingly unsettled by the other inhabitants' suspicions and by the inspector's investigation. Children stop coming to him for lessons. His wife, Viviane, a district nurse, protects him and supports him with her love. However, a self-centred media-star writer adds to René's confusion...
Director : Claude Chabrol
Writer : Claude Chabrol, Odile Barski
Cast
Sandrine Bonnaire
Jacques Gamblin
Antoine de Caunes
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Bernard Verley
Bulle Ogier