Claire Buisson becomes enamored with Gerard and soon afterwords she becomes pregnant. Gerard advises her to abort the child but, at the last moment, Claire decides to keep her child and leaves for her sister's place in the province.
Acting
Corinne Luchaire's trembling resolve as Claire.
Direction
Moguy's unsentimental gaze at impossible choices.
Director
Léonide Moguy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released months before France outlawed abortion entirely in 1939, the film's frank depiction of unwanted pregnancy was already controversial—and soon legally impossible.
Corinne Luchaire was a Vichy regime darling; her career collapsed after Liberation, making her performance here a strange echo of Claire's own social exile.