La Route du bagne

Paris 1865 In a musichall Manon accidentally kills her partner who was trying take sexual advantage of her She is condemned to twenty years of hard labor first and then to be deported to marry a released convict On the ship where she sails with her female fellowsufferers she gets to know a young doctor and helps to suppress a revolt Once arrived at her destination Manon hesitates between her official fiancé and the doctor whose household she does not want to break