
Jo Dest is known for The Wages of Fear (1953), The Damned (1947) and Flesh and the Woman (1954).

In a decrepit South American village, four men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe.

Based on the novel by Paul Vialar. Stuck in a loveless marriage, bourgeois industrialist Francois falls in love with Janine, another man's wife.