[6] Waking from a three-week coma in a private clinic with amnesia, a man is told that he survived a car crash and that he is Georges Campo, a name he does not recognise.

Voices start troubling him at night and he suffers nightmares, in one of which he is a coarse soldier called Pierre Lagrange fighting in Algeria.

He suspects attempts on his life: an unsecured trap door opens under him, a large dog attacks him, and a chandelier falls on him at dinner.

She and Frédéric had killed her husband Georges secretly but then needed a public death so they could marry and take over the Hong Kong business.

[5] In a contemporary review, the Monthly Film Bulletin stated that "It is a pity that Duvivier's extraordinarily uneven career should have ended with this rather lame thriller.