Simone Signoret

When a brothel closes because of new laws, four of the prostitutes decide to go into business running a restaurant in this feature nominated for the Golden Lion at the 1960 Venice Film Festival.

Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination camp, might have some clues, but other officials want Dobbs to drop the case...