A beautiful young woman in the South of France is stalked by, then raped by, a mysterious masked assailant. She shoots him dead soon afterwards and dumps his corpse in the sea. Later, an American investigator turns up, and to her horror he seems to know everything about what she has done......

导演让（Jean Yanne 饰）与女友凯瑟琳（Marlène Jobert 饰）暂居卡尔马格，两人有时试着找事情，有时上街拍素材。急躁的让贬低凯瑟琳，然而在凯瑟琳分开他回祖母家安歇的日子里，让寂寞难耐登门寻访不值，凯瑟琳真的返回的时辰，让给出的倒是一个耳光……　　两人的关系在不竭的离婚和好中维系，另方面让与分家已久的妃耦仍有交往，凯瑟琳对一…

故事改编自20世纪初出书的法国小说，描写身世上流社会的主人翁乔治·蓝道固然拥有富庶的地产和表妹的恋爱，却因为对社会不满，为了报复和舒展公理，居然变成一位强盗，专门抢劫银行，甚至义无返顾