In this film screenwriter Paul Gégauff plays a writer with a troubled marriage that ends in tragedy.
Chabrol was also a technical advisor on Jean-Luc Godard's feature debut and acted in small parts in many of his friends' and his own early films.
In 1999 his film was entered into the.
In the spring of 1973 the French government banned the film for one month, allegedly so that it would not influence members of the jury of a controversial criminal trial.