Panic

A noir-inflected tragedy about social isolation and mob suspicion, where an outsider's attraction to a woman becomes entangled with his town's readiness to condemn him.

Proud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns up dead in the Paris suburb where he lives, he feels drawn to a pretty young newcomer to town and discovers that his neighbors are only too ready to suspect the worst of him.