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SummaryMario Belmaschio, a young Italian, works in France, where he is called Beau Masque. He meets a French woman, Pierrette Amable, and after some time moves into her two-room apartment. Pierrette is a worker in the large local spinning mill and an active trade union official. When the spinning mill sacks one third of the workers because of a "restructuring of the company", a strike occurs, for which Pierrette is particularly committed. She puts her personal well-being and also her love for Beau Masque back in favor of her political task. Disappointed at first by Pierrette's attitude, Beau Masque, after a period of hesitation, also takes part in the industrial action. He is fatally injured during a demonstration.
