Though released in France in 1952 as Manina, la fille sans voiles, the film was not released in the United States until 1958 as Manina, the Girl in the Bikini and in the United Kingdom until 1959 as The Lighthouse-Keeper's Daughter.

Brigitte Bardot's father had signed a contract, on behalf of his minor daughter, specifying that the film was not to show indecent images.

[2] A 25-year-old Parisian student, Gérard Morere (Calvé), hears a lecture about a treasure Troilus lost at sea after the Peloponnesian War.

Gérard thinks he knows where it is, thanks to a discovery he made five years earlier when diving near the island of Levezzi, in Corsica.

There they find 18-year-old Manina (Bardot), the light-keeper's daughter, who is beautiful and pure.