This is Michel Drach's first effort and it has nothing to do with the activist works he would make in the seventies ("Elise ou La Vraie Vie" "Le Pull Over Rouge" ).It's a film noir,in Georges Simenon 's style.
The hero is a black man from Martinique who feels nostalgic for his island and is on his own in France.He falls in love with an au pair girl but has a love affair with a married woman ,Mrs Courtalès.He kills the husband in self-defense .But eight months later,he is arrested by the Police.Philippe's fate depends on a child's birth.It will not be what he's expecting.
This sleeper should be restored to favor
Louis Delluc prize,1959.
