
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.
Cast

Anouk Grinberg
Marie Abarth

Gérard Lanvin
Jeannot

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Sanguine

Olivier Martinez
Jean-François
Dominique Lollia
Mélissa

Dominique Valadié
Gilberte

Jacques François
2nd client

Robert Hirsch
Mr. Hervé

Bernard Fresson
Director of personnel

Jacques Gamblin
4th client

Bernard Le Coq
inspecteur Marvier

Mathieu Kassovitz
1st client

Michel Galabru
3rd client

Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Client

Sabine Azéma
Bérangère

Roger Carel
Passerby with a hat

Jean-Pierre Léaud
Client

Jean-Philippe Écoffey
Unknown

Ginette Garcin
Woman in Shawl

Frédéric Pierrot
Cop at interrogation

Bruno Abraham-Kremer
Unknown

Aurore Clément
Woman of the World

Nanou Garcia
Unknown
Crew

Bertrand Blier
Director, Screenplay
Claudine Merlin
Editor

Pierre Lhomme
Director of Photography

Alain Sarde
Producer
Georges Glon
Production Design

Willy Holt
Production Design

Christian Gasc
Costume Design
Fabienne Bressan
Hairstylist
Thi-Loan Nguyen
Makeup Artist

Pierre Gamet
Sound Mixer
Barry White
Original Music Composer

Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki
Original Music Composer
Jacques Leguillon
Set Decoration

Mathieu Kassovitz
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