Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves the town. She will track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her. What is her goal? What is her purpose?

After a botched attempt to put an end to her miserable existence, the emotionally scarred and irreparably destroyed widow, Julie Kohler, summons up the strength to pack up her things and leave her mother and town behind. Haunted by a horrible, life-altering incident and utterly surrendered to the palpable void of paranoia, Julie embraces black, the colour of death, and embarks on a devilish mission of revenge. Now, as the sinful past puts five seemingly unrelated men in harm's way, acknowledging death may be liberating. But, is there a limit to relentless Julie's determination? Above all, is there an escape from the clutches of the grim avenger with the doleful, dark eyes?—Nick Riganas

Julie Kohler has been despondent ever since the death of her husband, David Kohler, the love of her life who she knew since childhood. As she was prevented from killing herself in that despondency, Julie changes her mission in life to taking revenge by killing the five men who she eventually learned were the cause of David's death, they who have dispersed never to see each other again in hiding their actions with regard to David. To hide the fact of what she is attempting to do, she tells her mother that she is going away, Julie's niece Sabine who sees her board the train, which is only a ruse to stay in town to start this mission as Julie never does take that train trip. After she completes her mission, she doesn't care what happens to her in coming to peace with her actions. With a general plan concerning each man, the question becomes whether she can complete what she sets out to do as she is forced to alter her plans on the fly based on what actually happens with each man.—Huggo

After trying to commit suicide, the widow Julie Kohler (Jeanne Moreau) pretends to her mother that she will leave her town. Actually she stays, chases and assassinates the five men that accidentally killed her beloved husband in the stairs of the church immediately after their wedding ceremony.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil