In Lyon, where many are unemployed, Marie is a prostitute who loves her work: she's thoughtful and exuberant toward clients old and young, slim or flabby. One night, a homeless man sleeps in the foyer of her apartment house; she gives him a hot meal, then a place on the floor to sleep by her radiator, then she offers herself. She falls in love, giving him new life, clothes, a place to live. When he grouses that he must bar hop while she uses the flat for her work, she finds them a larger flat. He grows restless, seducing a manicurist and pressing her to prostitution. He's arrested for procuring, so Marie must decide what to do; he, too, must face the consequences of his choices.
Anouk Grinberg
Gérard Lanvin
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Olivier Martinez
Dominique Lollia
Dominique Valadié
Jacques François
Robert Hirsch
Bernard Fresson
Jacques Gamblin
Bernard Le Coq
Mathieu Kassovitz
Michel Galabru
Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Sabine Azéma
Roger Carel
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Jean-Philippe Écoffey
Ginette Garcin
Frédéric Pierrot
Bruno Abraham-Kremer
Aurore Clément
Nanou Garcia