starring
Catherine Deneuve, Anouk Aimée, Charles Denner,
Francis Huster, Niels Arestrup, Colette Baudot,
Jacques Villeret, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu,
Jean-Pierre Kalfon & Jean-Jacques Briot
Song written by Pierre Barouh & Francis Lai - performed by Françoise Hardy
The Story
Catherine, a thrity-five year-old jail-bird, has just been released from the sentence, from which she was accused of taking part in the murder of the man who raped her. Out of desperation, she gives birth to a child in prison that she had with the male nurse that worked there. Today, Simon is fifteen, she sees him at last. He becomes infatuated with her and she has to tell him that she is his mother. Simon is heart-broken and is taken in by Sarah, a friend of Catherine's, that she met in prison. Simon introduces his mother to Patrick, his history professor. He's a nice man and they seem attracted to one other.