1940年，丘吉尔设立了一个新的情报组织“特别行动局”，简称SOE。其中一个分部负责监督法国的行动。1944年，为了确保盟军登陆成功，这个分部付出了沉重的代价。 　　Louise（苏菲·玛索 Sophie Marceau 饰）刚刚失去丈夫，被哥哥带回法国参加SOE，接受的任务是救出落入敌手的一位英国地质学家——他手中拥有的是德军布置在诺曼底的防御工事图，几乎是盟军登陆的全部关键。 　　和Louise共同作战的还有其他几位姑娘。妓女Jeanne（茱莉·德帕迪约 Julie Depardieu 饰）因为杀害自己的客人而被判死刑，SOE承诺只要她完成任务即可获得豁免。随后加入的Suzy、Gaëlle，都是有着一段不为人知的伤心往事。当她们为了盟军而贡献自己的聪明才智，任务能否成功，她们又是否能全身而退？

The American writer Joe arrives in Paris to research and write about Proust. He meets the Polish Karl and they become friends and costumers of brothels and restaurants. When the fifteen year-old Colette arrives in Paris, they both fall in love with her. 　　Expatriate Henry Miller indulges in a variety of sexual escapades while struggling to establish himself as a serious writer in Paris. 　　Very nice portrait of the thirties..., 23 April 2002 　　Author: Oreste (oreste.sl@sympatico.ca) from Montréal, Québec 　　Different from many other Chabrol movies that follow "Hitchock-like" patterns, _Jours tranquilles à Clichy_ relates the days a young American writer (Henry Miller) spent in the Gay Paris of the early thirties, with his polish-descent friend and their young Colette, a 14 years old-ish girl with whom they both fall in love. The story in itself doesn't send us from a surprising even to another but slowly lifts the curtain over the prostitution, pornography, libertinage and partying that seemed to oppose Paris so much to New York, in the eyes of Miller, searching for a change from the dull like he lead before. The story is a quest for Proust and his lost time, a quest for a new life, for thrills, for truth in forgetting oneself...