Five prisoners ,a woman and four men,return to France after WW2.We follow their rocky road to life.It's a movie which consists of five different stories.Aunt Anna comes back from a concentration camp but her family is more interested in her money; Antoine becomes a waiter in a place commandeered by an English all-female regiment.A wounded German takes refuge in Jean's boarding-house ,he used to be a torturer.Louis,back from war,is feted but his wife has run away with a resistant fighter.René is welcomed by the mayor on the railway station platform ; but he's married to a German woman.