Released from prison apparently under a New Year amnesty, a criminal tries to pick up the threads of a life changed not only by his daring plan to rob a jewelry store in out-of-season Cannes, but also by a very special someone he met there.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}

At the end of 1972, con artist and thief Simon receives a remission to celebrate the New Year outside La Santé Prison. While heading to his apartment in Paris to meet his mistress Françoise, Simon notices that a car is chasing his cab. In the apartment, Simon learns that Françoise has a lover and he leaves the place without being noticed. Simon recalls Christmas 1966, when he travels out-of-season to Cannes with his partner and friend Charlot to heist the jewellers Van Cleef and Arpels. While plotting a scheme to rob the jewellers', Simon meets the intellectual antique dealer Françoise whose shop is next door to the target and he falls in love with her. But his scheme does not work as planned and he is arrested.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil