Robert Bresson's final masterpiece traces the devastating chain of consequences set in motion when a counterfeit banknote passes through innocent hands and ultimately destroys the life of a working man who never knew it was fake. Told with Bresson's characteristic austerity—minimal dialogue, non-professional actors, precise framing—the film builds to a shocking conclusion that indicts an entire social system. One of cinema's great moral parables about how small acts of dishonesty can cascade into irreversible tragedy.