Emile is a steelworker in a car factory ;a confirmed bachelor going on fifty, he leads a peaceful life .One night, he is woken up by a burst of machine gun fire. The cafe in the corner of the street has been burglarized.A distraught young girl rushes into his apartment building and hides in his room .When the police make a search, he makes her out to be his lover for the night.Madeleine tells her about her sad past : she has severed all links with her parents ,she's an unwed mother and in the underworld's clutches. Emile sends his protegee to old mommy Dupont's place ,in the suburbs of Paris.
as Madeleine aka Mado
as Émile Dupont
as Mirabelle
as André aka 'Dédé'
as Robert Flic
as François
as Dominique
as Coco, a worker
as A worker
as Jimmy
as Sophie
as A worker
as Monsieur Gaston, the bistro
as The fake sent from the Renault factories
as Marcel
as The concierge
as Monsieur Pierre
as (uncredited)
as A worker (uncredited)
as A worker (uncredited)
as A foreman (uncredited)
as A worker (uncredited)
as (uncredited)
