A story of passion, Jacques Demy’s 1982 musical unfolds in 1955 Nantes against the backdrop of a shipyard strike. François, a striking metalworker, is engaged to Violette when he meets and falls in love with Edith, a married woman and the daughter of a colonel’s widow—from whom François is renting a room in town. Deciding they can’t live without each other, François and Edith plan to run away together before a series of tragic events crushes their dreams. Demy’s most complex film wraps questions of political inquiry and identity inside a rousing soundtrack by Michel Colombier.