As the city of Paris and the French people grow in consumer culture, a housewife living in a high-rise apartment with her husband and two children takes to prostitution to help pay the bills.
A small village of natives, somewhere in the West Indies, with its ancestral traditions, its hints of superstitions and its beliefs in bewitchments, in an environment of fishermen and cane cutters, with its old sorcerer who says he has the power of life and death.
