In this Claude Sautet movie, Michel Piccoli plays Max, an ex-judge who becomes a police, who wants to catch bad guys red handed. Desperate because he can't catch any bank robbers, Max makes a plan and plants the idea to rob a bank into the heads of a small group of petty thieves, using one of them's girlfriend, a prostitute named Lily (Romy Schneider), whom he befriends. Max tells Lily that he is a banker, makes her comfortable with his wealth, tells her the best day to rob a bank; and on the D-day the police has surrounded the bank, waiting for the robbers to arrive.The plot is very interesting. François Périer plays the inspector who investigates the robbery. Deep in his heart he knows they are actually harmless for he knows the gang very well. However, there is one thing that wasn't in Max's plan. During his friendship with Lily, he becomes to like the girl and is shocked to find that Lily has also been arrested by the police because she is the brain behind the robbery. Without her, there would be no robbery. Of course Max is the brain behind Lily, but can he be arrested?
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