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Article description: Hellé (Gwen Welles) is a wild but kind-hearted deaf and dumb girl.
All alone in the world, apart from the woodmen who turn to her when they need to feel the warmth of a woman’s body, Hellé is an outcast with no sense of Good and Bad.
The woods are the only environment Hellé knows until the day that Fabrice (Didier Haudepin), an innocent and carefree young man, comes to spent the summer with his mother.
Fabrice falls in love with Hellé and Hellé gradually opens up to him. Fabrice considers her a symbol of purity and, that summer, Fabrice finally discovers love.
Interpreted by excellent actors and photographed by Claude Renoir, Vadim’s film is simultaneously tender and cruel.
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