Plot

An American painter has an affair with a bar owner in a French village. To free her from her marriage, the painter must help the estranged husband escape from an asylum.

Jeff Farrell, a dissolute drifter down on his luck, is stranded in a cheap bar in France where he falls for Annette, the proprietor's pretty stepdaughter. Annette's stepmother Eve gradually shifts the young man's attentions to herself rather than her stepdaughter, and together Eve and Jeff concoct a plot to help free Eve's estranged husband from the institution in which he's been confined as a homicidal maniac these past four years after committing the so-called "Acetylene Murder", when he killed with a blowtorch the man who raped Annette. The idea is that Georges, the husband, will leave the country, but the plan goes awry.—Wheeler Winston Dixon

When American painter Jeff Farrell dumps his girlfriend in Camarga, France, he meets 18-year-old waitress Annette Beynat in a bar and decides to stay in town on vacation at a bed-and-breakfast owned by her stepmother Eve. Jeff feels a great attraction for Annette but is seduced by Eve and has a love affair with her. He learns that three years ago Annette was raped by a man called Janiello and her father Georges, who is locked in an asylum, killed the man using an acetylene torch. After visiting Georges, Eve tells Jeff that he accepts their relationship, provided that they help him escape from the asylum driving a getaway car to the harbor. Jeff decides to help Georges, then is visited by Inspector Etienne who discloses dark secrets.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

While traveling through Europe, American painter Jeff Farrell makes an unexpected extended stay in Saint-Jérôme, close to the Camargue tidal flats in the Provence region of France. He is a man that easily falls in and out of love, and his stay in Saint-Jérôme is to ditch his privileged girlfriend Grace, with whom he was traveling, as he has now fallen out-of-love with her. He is immediately attracted to Annette Beynat, the 18-year-old waitress at the bar and pensione where he's staying, and is just as easily seduced by her stepmother Eve whose incarcerated husband owns the establishments. In the course of their relationship, Jeff and Eve fall in love. Eve's husband Georges Beynat has been in an insane asylum for four years since he brutally killed a man who raped Annette on her way home from school. Eve knows that Georges is not insane and is planning to escape rather than be sent to prison if his true mental state would be discovered. Eve wants Jeff to help on the outside portion of the escape so that her and Georges' life can truly be over in settling their affairs, they who will sell the establishment splitting the proceeds with Georges subsequently to "disappear" from from Saint-Jérôme with Annette, and she and would be able to ride off blissfully into the proverbial sunset. The escape does not occur quite according to plan, and places Jeff's life at risk because of one of the other players' grand scheme for his/her own other end goal.—Huggo

Jeff Farrell, a worthless drifter down on his luck, becomes entangled with Eve Beynat and her stepdaughter Annette, who run a small hotel in Southern France. Georges Beynat, Eve's husband, has been in an insane asylum for the past four years for blow-torching to death a man who raped his daughter Annette. At first, Paul is interested in Annette, but Eve easily manipulates Paul into helping her husband Georges escape from the asylum.—Wheeler Winston Dixon <wdixon@unlinfo.unl.edu>