Directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre. With Jean Gabin, Simone Signoret, Annie Cordy, Jacques Rispal. Courbevoie (France), 1971. Julien Bouin, a former typographist, and his wife Clemence, who used to perform in a circus, hardly talk to each other in their small house, soon to be demolished. His cat Greffier being the only one he still gives affection to, he becomes the object of Clemence's anger.