Julien is a clockmaker with destructive impulses who decides to blackmail Madame X, a rich, attractive woman who traffics in stolen antiques. What he doesn’t know is that she has an even more dangerous secret that leads him to Marie, with whom he had fallen in love a year earlier.
| Directing | Jacques Rivette | Director |
| Writing | Pascal Bonitzer | Writer |
| Writing | Jacques Rivette | Writer |
| Editing | Nicole Lubtchansky | Editor |
| Camera | William Lubtchansky | Director of Photography |
| Production | Martine Marignac | Producer |
| Art | Emmanuel de Chauvigny | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Laurence Struz | Costume Design |
| Writing | Christine Laurent | Writer |