Stain on the Snow

La neige était sale is based on a novel and play by the phenomenally prolific Georges Simenon Upon learning that his mother was a prostitute Frank Daniel Gelin dejectedly vows that he too will live a life of debauchery Part of his selfdegradation program is to kill someone and since the story takes place during the Nazi occupation of France he chooses a German officer as his victim His steady descent into psychosis and depravity becomes his ultimate undoing