Le Havre : Un docker, Jean, repousse les avances de Madeleine, mariée à un ivrogne brutal. Celui-ci est tué dans une rixe. Madeleine accuse Jean, puis se suicide.
Le Havre, France, in 1949. In a town that still shows the scars of war, several friends meet up in Albert's café. One of them, Laurent, has lost his job on the docks and his marriage to Madeleine is falling apart. He knows that his wife wa...