Claude Seignolle

Deeply hurt and disfigured in a car crash, the famous star Vera Bella leaves the 'St James Plastic Surgery Hospital' where surgeons tried to give her back her famous beauty. Trying to escape the mass media pressure, she decides to take some rest in a secret family Manor near the Ocean.

A mysterious individual, silent and taciturn, appears one evening in a Breton inn and arouses curiosity before provoking hatred, fear and, finally, his own death. The film was screened for the 1972 Directors' Fortnight, at the Cannes Festival.

Deeply hurt and disfigured in a car crash, the famous star Vera Bella leaves the 'St James Plastic Surgery Hospital' where surgeons tried to give her back her famous beauty. Trying to escape the mass media pressure, she decides to take some rest in a secret family Manor near the Ocean.

A mysterious individual, silent and taciturn, appears one evening in a Breton inn and arouses curiosity before provoking hatred, fear and, finally, his own death. The film was screened for the 1972 Directors' Fortnight, at the Cannes Festival.