Plot Summary

In Paris, when the husband of Sandra, Jacques, commits suicide, she calls her brother Marco Silvestri, who is the captain of an oil tanker, to return to Paris to help her. Jacques was Marco's best friend and was running the woman's shoe factory that belonged to the father of Marco and Sandra. Marco, who had given-up of his inheritance, learns that the factory is bankrupted, and Sandra has no money to pay the debts. He also discovers that his niece Justine has drinking and drug problems and her Dr. Béthanie believes she needs to be operated to repair her vagina, damaged by sex abuse and torture. Sandra tells Marco that the financer Edouard Laporte is the responsible for Jacques' suicide and prostitution of Justine, and Marco rents an apartment and moves to Laporte's building. He befriends Laporte's wife, Raphaëlle, after repairing her son Joseph's bicycle and soon he has a love affair with Raphaëlle. He also sells his car, his life insurance policy and his watch to help Sandra to pay her debts, and Sandra gives a pistol to him. Now Marco decides to find what happened to Justine while he falls in love with Raphaëlle, with tragic consequences.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil