Jean Seberg

À l'aube de la vie, le narrateur se fait une promesse : ces années qui l'attendent, il les déposera aux pieds de sa mère pour réparer toutes les souffrances qu'elle a endurées. Il tâchera de combler tous ses désirs et de compenser par la gloire les humiliations que cette Russe immigrée, seule et sans un sou, a dû subir pour pouvoir déposer avec fierté, tous les jours, le bifteck du déjeuner dans l'assiette de son fils unique et adoré, ne se réservant que le gras de la cuisson…

Ruth (Jean Seberg) lives with her stepdaughter Chris (Marisol) in an isolated mansion in the countryside. Both of them wait for the same man. He was Ruth's husband and the father of Chris. One day, without warning, he left everything. They don't know where he's at. But Ruth and Chris have different feelings about him. Ruth wants to get even with him for what he has done to her, and for doing this she can use Chris, his daughter. Maybe she can corrupt her. But corruption is a vague word, what does it really mean? And Chris waits for her father as if he were the last hope left for her. A traumatic experience she had, has left its mark on her. Maybe her father is the only good thing left in the world…

Michel Poiccard, an irresponsible sociopath and small-time thief, steals a car and impulsively murders the motorcycle policeman who pursues him. Now wanted by the authorities, he renews his relationship with Patricia Franchini, a hip American girl studying journalism at the Sorbonne, whom he had met in Nice a few weeks earlier. Before leaving Paris, he plans to collect a debt from an underworld acquaintance and expects her to accompany him on his planned getaway to Italy.