120 minutes
7/23/1990
Jeanne is a woman who is driven by her very active conscience. She attempts to assuage her idealistic bent by trying out life as a nun, but this doesn't work out. After she leaves the convent, she takes a job at a factory, where the callousness of management spurs her to become a labor activist. Her efforts are marked by great persistence and fervor, but she lacks any kind of diplomacy or persuasiveness, and as the years progress, she manages to alienate everyone in her life. By the end of the film, there is only one way that she can see to resolve the horrible situation she finds herself in.

Solveig Dommartin
as Jeanne

Emmanuelle Chaulet
as Odette, ouvrière
Anna Acerbis
as Biquette, l'épouse de Gégé
Françoise Arnaud
as Nini, ouvrière

Pierre Banderet
as Pitiou, contremaître
Jean Besseau
as Père André

Maurice Chevit
as L'abbé Roussel

Philippe Clévenot
as Lucien

Albert Delpy
as Roger, permanent syndical
Velia Di Sabatino
as Mado, ouvrière

Catherine Hosmalin
as Agnès, ouvrière
Claudine Jegourel
as Ouvrière

Henriette Palazzi
as Marguerite, ouvrière

Yvette Petit
as Jacqueline
Aurore Prieto
as Renée

Jean-Paul Roussillon
as Bébert, gardien de la Bourse du travail

Henri Serre
as Henri

Roger Souza
as Gégé
Brigitte Stefenelli
as Soeur Cécile
Oswald Stefenelli
as L'évèque

Hélène Surgère
as Superiorin

François Viaur
as Guilbert, chef du personnel
Edith Winkler
as Yvonne, épouse de Lucien