Hôtel du Nord

At the Hôtel du Nord in a working-class district of Paris, a first communion party unites many of the occupants. Among them is the prostitute Raymonde (Arletty), whose pimp Edmond (Louis Jouvet) stays in their room to develop some photographs he has taken. A young couple, Renée (Annabella) and Pierre (Jean-Pierre Aumont), enter and take a room for the night. Once alone, they run through their plan to kill themselves because they can't afford to marry and set up home. Pierre shoots Renée with a pistol, but he can't then kill himself.