Lino Ventura is typecast again in this routine suspense story, this time as Pascal, a tough-minded, caustic, basically unsympathetic newspaper vendor. Pascal is caught up in the action when a man tries to drown himself, and without realizing it he soon becomes a pawn in a plot that the failed suicide is hatching. Fate lurks in the background as a murder is committed and Pascal tries to get himself out of more than one predicament. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide