Le Silence de la Mer is director Jean-Pierre Melville's first film. It is about two Frenchmen resisting the German occupation by being silent to the German soldier who resides in their house.
A letter is sent to three wives. A fourth woman, Addie Ross, stole one of their husbands. But which one? They will find out at the end of the day, when one of their husbands will not return home to them.