Jeanne is a woman who is driven by her very active conscience. She attempts to assuage her idealistic bent by trying out life as a nun, but this doesn't work out. After she leaves the convent, she takes a job at a factory, where the callousness of management spurs her to become a labor activist. Her efforts are marked by great persistence and fervor, but she lacks any kind of diplomacy or persuasiveness, and as the years progress, she manages to alienate everyone in her life. By the end of the film, there is only one way that she can see to resolve the horrible situation she finds herself in.
Solveig Dommartin
Emmanuelle Chaulet
Anna Acerbis
Françoise Arnaud
Pierre Banderet
Jean Besseau
Maurice Chevit
Philippe Clévenot
Albert Delpy
Velia Di Sabatino
Catherine Hosmalin
Claudine Jegourel
Henriette Palazzi
Yvette Petit
Aurore Prieto
Jean-Paul Roussillon
Henri Serre
Roger Souza
Brigitte Stefenelli
Oswald Stefenelli
Hélène Surgère
François Viaur
Edith Winkler