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The prosecuting attorney, Eparvier, claims it was an act of premeditated murder that warrants the death penalty. The defense attorney, Guérin, maintains that it was an act of passion and not punishable by death.
During the course of the trial, we see the events that led up to the crime. Dominque's parents let her move to Paris after she tried to kill herself when they initially refused. She had been living on the Paris Left Bank with her violinist sister
She meets Gilbert, her sister's boyfriend, a music student. Dominique seduces Gilbert and he falls for her and proposed but she turns him down. They live together for a time but Dominique struggles with domesticity and Gilbert is constantly worried she will cheat on him. Eventually they break up.
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