A sociologist researching a book interviews murderess Camille who tells him the story of her life. Put in a reform school as a child for suspected patricide and later transferred to an orphanage she escaped and tricked a young man called Clovis into marrying her. After attempting to kill Clovis' mother she fled to Paris where she began an affair with a night-club singer. Camille has left a trail of destruction and deceit in her wake which now threatens to engulf the sociologist.
A sociologist researching a book interviews murderess Camille who tells him the story of her life. Put in a reform school as a child for suspected patricide and later transferred to an orphanage she escaped and tricked a young man called Clovis into marrying her. After attempting to kill Clovis' mother she fled to Paris where she began an affair with a night-club singer. Camille has left a trail of destruction and deceit in her wake which now threatens to engulf the sociologist.
