A war vet finds out that a former prostitute had his baby. Doubting it's his, he gives it away, so she reports him. Twenty years later, she still wants to find her son. She meets a young man and falls in love, but the vet's prison term ends.
Linda leaves the modest family home and decides to go off and make a life for herself. She finds a job as a secretary for a married man who woos her, snubs a libertine seducer and finally finds love with Frédéric, a young and handsome millionaire racing driver in his spare time. Alas, the man she...
An unemployed man with individualist and pacifist values is inevitably brainwashed by society and the mass media to conform to the dominant ideology and embrace war. His soul is destroyed but his heart cannot be conquered.
