Charles Millot

On a train from Paris to Antwerp, a director and his team hash out the plot to a crime movie as it's enacted by a drug smuggler and a seductress.

Since the drug smuggler Alain Charnier got away from him in New York, narcotics detective Popeye Doyle follows him to France and works with the police there to capture him and shut down his operation.

Based on the life of the Yugoslavian electrical engineer who introduced the concept of alternating current.