Anne Doat

A grouchy shopkeeper made an unsuccessful financial investment, and now he is on the verge of bankruptcy. In order to avenge oneself he engages his own family into a plan to rob a next door bank.

In a moment of madness a respectable pharmacist kills a young woman who is sun-bathing by a lake. Unable to take in what he has done, he flees from the scene of the crime and behaves as if nothing has happened.

This is about the execution of 21 carmelite nuns in the latter stages of the terror during the French Revolution.

The world of juvenile delinquents seen through the eyes of a judge.