It was only a card game in the beginning, but then it turned out to be a crime thriller. Frank is a man who works in a printing shop, and whose life was paid a visit by an uninvited man. Then he tries to take his wife and 8-year-old daughter to the island of Corsica, but the uninvited man shows up there as well...
Four men lost in the mountains suffering from typhus struggle to survive in this grim war drama. Hallucinations are accompanied by bouts of anger as the men approach insanity and death. Although the feature was turned down by the festival committee, it did appear at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival.