Genevière Emery, whose mother has an umbrella shop, loves Guy Foucher. adame Emery doesn’t approve of this idyll with a young mechanic. uy is called up, to the Algeria war and Geneviève gives herself before he leaves…She is pregnant. Guy gives little news. ushed by her mother, Geneviève accepts to marry Roland Cassard, a rich diamond cutter. few years later, on a Christmas eve, it snows and…