Noh, an air traffic controller, joins forces with three other men -
Harvey, Victor and Simon - to steal a shipment of gold valued at six
million dollars when it arrives at an airport in North Africa.
But to transform their booty into bank notes, the four men must cross a
scorching desert that is laden with traps. The plan that they had
prepared so meticulously soon risks falling to pieces...
Science-fiction came into its own in B-movies of the 1950s, but it remains a respected and popular genre, bursting into the mainstream in the late 1970s.
From Jean Renoir to François Truffaut, French cinema has no shortage of truly great filmmakers, each bringing a unique approach to the art of filmmaking.
It was American film noir and pulp fiction that kick-started the craze for thrillers in 1950s France and made it one of the most popular and enduring genres.