Remorques plot
"A tempestuous love story in the great French style...!"
André Laurent is the captain of a salvage tugboat. He lives with his sick wife Yvonne in the Breton port city of Brest. Yvonne suffers from his absence and withholds from him the seriousness of her illness. She would love for him to give up his dangerous work and start a new life elsewhere. One evening, during the wedding party of one of his crew members, he is called upon to rush to the aid of a freighter in distress. He manages to get the ship to safety. However, the captain of the cargo ship refuses to pay him and flees. André falls in love with the wife of the escaped captain, who was traveling with her husband...