Charles Denner, Michèle Morgan, Danielle Darrieux, Hildegard Knef, Juliette Mayniel, Stéphane Audran, Catherine Rouvel, Françoise Lugagne, Mary Marquet, Denise Provence, Serge Bento, Claude Mansard, Robert Burnier, Mario David, Jean-Louis Maury
Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefields, Henri Landru, a seemingly respectable furniture dealer, married and father of four children, relentlessly feeds his own sinister factory of death.