Passage secret

In a somewhat deflated story of robbery and deception set against the rooftops and byways of Paris a group of enterprising petty thieves take advantage of the dog days of August to burglarize vacated apartments At this time of year all Parisiens are on vacation elsewhere and the city is invaded by tourists on vacation from their own cities In this mass rearrangement of the European population the thieves get away with their looting until they run into an architect who catches them in the act But his morals are nothing to brag about as he gets more involved in what they are doing and wants some of their take He is also smitten with one of the downandout women the thieves have been supporting Dominque Laffin As in so many French dramas these conflicting relationships are doomed to be resolved only by tragedy