Kinski plays a motorcycle rider whose bike breaks down in a small French village. He is helped by Madeleine (Maria Schneider), a young woman who is a social outcast from having a child out of wedlock. When news spreads that a little girl was run down by a cyclist, locals focus their blame on Kinski. 　　A lynch mob is formed by a truckdriver who seeks revenge on the stranger accused of the hit-and-run accident. The fascist villagers are brutally hunting the motorcyclist without any mercy and in the end he is electrocuted by these rednecks 　　译文(3): 金斯基饰演一名摩托车骑手，他的自行车在一个法国小村庄坏了。他得到了玛德琳（玛丽亚·施奈德饰）的帮助，她是一名因非婚生孩子而被社会排斥的年轻女子。当一个小女孩被一个骑自行车的人撞倒的消息传开后，当地人将责任归咎于金斯基。