An alternately comic, tragic, fantastic and hauntingly beautiful reverie on love lost and regained, this final work from the pathbreaking French director Jean Vigo—completed shortly before his tragically premature death at 29—chronicles the "honeymoon" of two young newlyweds (Jean Daste and Dita Parlo) on a river barge chugging towards Paris, accompanied by the filthy, tattooed Père Jules (Michel Simon), who lives amongst a swarm of cats and keeps the forearm of his dead best friend pickled in a jar.