Legendary actress Leslie Caron (Gigi, An American in Paris, Damage) stars in the great filmmaker Jean Renoir's suspenseful tale of a beautiful French actress struggling to avoid the dealy politics and forbidden passions of Nazi-occupied France. Mel Ferrer (The Longest Day, Robocop) portrays the head of the German occupying forces that renews an unexpected liaison with Caron, a glamorous star of boulevard farces.
The German Gestapo is searching a theatre where a play is in progress for a French underground leader who they know is hiding there. Can Carola - as she insists in the beginning - turn her back on the war and devote herself solely to her art? Before the play is over, Carola must make a major decision, which will be a matter of life and death - her own.
