Marie Leroux, who is married to Charles, an honest, understanding country doctor, lives an uneventful, rather monotonous life.Her husband is a kind man but he does not give her any thrill or excitement. One day, Marie meets Olivier Dumas-Beaulieu, a handsome industrialist, who is in the process of leaving his fiancée Corinne, despite her being pregnant by him. It is easy for the confirmed womanizer he is, to seduce Marie, who very foolishly thinks she has found true love. Shortly afterward Charles is shot dead by Olivier while the two men were having a quarrel about Marie. The latter, who finds the corpse, believes her husband has committed suicide. Which is not the police's opinion and Marie is arrested and condemned to ten years in prison. Annihilated by such unfair treatment and, worse, by the separation from her beloved eight-year-old daughter, she still manages to survive and to serve her sentence.
as Marie Leroux
as Olivier Dumas-Beaulieu
as Doctor Charles Leroux
as Corinne Martinage
as Joseph, chauffeur
as Agnès Leroux at 18
as Director of the boarding school
as Juliette
as Joséphine
as Madame Dumontel
as Woman who leaves
as Agnès Leroux at 8
as Maxime Martinage at 23
as Maxime Martinage at 13
as Henri
as Marie's lawyer
as Pharmacist
as Prison clerk
