The film begins with a masochistic episode, Charles killing his masochistic lover, getting rid of evidence, having a few whiskies in a bar, being sick in the toilet, and meeting François in the bar. Visibly, he is psychologically troubled.
His trouble will continue, after the body is discovered, investigation has taken place, and the police are still no closer to finding the answer. Charles feels as though he's having a nervous breakdown, has to tell someone of his troubles, so tells Hélène of his affair with Laura. And later, of his (almost accidental) murder of her. Hélène continues to support Charles: what else can she do, as she's financially and familiarly tied to him. But (religious? moral?) guilt hounds Charles.
He tells François and asks if he should confess to the police, but François is stoical: he loves Charles, and then there's the scandal, why disturb the (bourgeois) universe? Because, of course, Charles wants to give himself up, purge himself, but he's the only person who wants this.
The solution to a suicidal Charles? Well, suicide, or is it euthanasia? Anyway, his kids soon forget the business.
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