在这部夏日时光剧情片中,强有力的五角悲喜剧从荒凉山野间的精致旅店展开。前来投宿的妙龄女子Michèle (Madeleine Robinson)，苦候方至的画家男友Roland (Pierre Brasseur) 酗酒且冷酷。旅店女主人Cricri (Madeleine Renaud) 和当地富绅Patrice (Paul Bernard) 从灰暗的过往纠缠至今。前来支援开山造坝的工程师Julien (Georges Marchal) 误闯Michèle房间，一见钟情。
由于对当时统治阶级放纵享乐主义的细致刻画，本片遭到二战期间法国维希政府的禁映。而今，本片被视作导演Jean Grémillon的最佳力作。
A shimmering glass hotel at the top of a remote Provençal mountain provides the setting for a tragicomic tapestry about an obsessive love pentangle, whose principals range from an artist to a hotel manager to a dam worker. Scripted by Jacques Prévert and Pierre Laroche, the film was banned from theaters for the duration of the occupation for its dark portrayal of the hedonistic excesses of the ruling class. Today, it is often singled out as Jean Grémillon's greatest achievement.
