Le coup du sort

In the French Basque Country near SaintJeanlesBains young man Julien Noriega finds a corpse buried with jewels in an abandoned car near a ravine Julien cannot resist the temptation and takes the jewels with him He later learned from the press that the man in the car was killed Maria Galiena the boarding lady who accommodates Julien brings him into contact with a healer Julien and Maria become lovers cash in on the loot and flee It is quite obvious that this does not lead to a happy ending and that the opportunistic amateur thief is confronted with professional criminals Galiena in particular as an Italian hotel keeper Maria impresses in a beautiful drama written by Valérie Bonnier Carlos PerezMerinero Luis Maria and Robert Valey