Considered by most Chabrol admirers as the best "early Chabrol," Les Bonnes Femmes is a film about four shop girls in Paris, their lives, their loves and their dreams. Particularly affecting is the story of Jacqueline (Bernadette Lafont) who feels sure she has discovered the love of her life in a mysterious motorcyclist, and who dies strangled as a result. Despite the violence and Chabrol's jaundiced view of the vulgarities of ordinary Paris and ordinary Parisians, there is tenderness and poetry in this classically "New Wave" film.