In a small Breton town, a 10-year-old girl is found murdered. René, her art teacher, a professional painter, is the last person to have seen her alive. The inspector in charge of the investigation immediately questions him. In this small provincial town where people all know each other and regularly meet at the Bar des Amis, René is increasingly unsettled by the other inhabitants' suspicions and by the inspector's investigation. Children stop coming to him for lessons. His wife, Viviane, a district nurse, protects him and supports him with her love. However, a self-centred media-star writer adds to René's confusion...
Sandrine Bonnaire
Vivianne Sterne
Jacques Gamblin
René Sterne
Antoine de Caunes
Germain-Roland Desmot
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Frédérique Lesage
Bernard Verley
Inspecteur Loudun
Bulle Ogier
Évelyne Bordier
Pierre Martot
Regis Marchal
Noël Simsolo
Monsieur Bordier
Rodolphe Pauly
Victor
Adrienne Pauly
Anna
Véronique Volta
Betty
Sylvie Flepp
Madame Lemoine
Florent Gibassier
Joël Sarne
Thomas Chabrol
Le Médecin Légiste
Dominique Zardi
Monsieur Shouten
Philippe Dana
Le Directeur du Théâtre
Yvon Crenn
Le Maire de St. Malo
Vincent Spatari
La Père à l'École
Claude Chabrol
Emmanuel Solar (voice) (uncredited)
Eric Savin
Christian (uncredited)