Christmas Holiday

Charley Mason, a nice young Englishman from a responsible, privileged home, goes to Paris for a five-day Christmas holiday. But instead of seeing the sights, he winds up involved with the Paris underworld, where he hears the stories of Robert Berger, a petty thief and convicted murderer, and meets Lydia, a Russian prostitute, and the gaunt fanatical revolutionary, Simon. After his adventures take him to French Guinea and the Devil's Island prison colony, Charley will begin to question everything he once believed about himself. Eventually, Charley Mason returns to his comfortable home in London -- but he returns irrevocably changed, with all of his previous assumptions and beliefs shattered.