Jean Grémillon himself wrote the screenplay for what was to be his last feature film. An unusual feminist tract, the story concerns a young woman doctor on a small coastal island (Presle) who battles both the community’s prejudices about her professional qualifications and the selfish chauvinism of the engineer (Girotti) with whom she has fallen in love. Despite the stunning black-and-white photography of Louis Page and the winning performance of Micheline Presle, the work that critic Georges Sadoul called an “important and noble film on the female psyche and the relationship between men and women” was a complete commercial failure.