A short film based on the last chapter of the novel of the same name by Albert Camus. Meursault, sentenced to death for murder, is in a prison cell. In his hopeless situation and while waiting for the inevitable, his execution, he goes through thoughts and feelings. He clings to the idea of a plea for clemency. The prison chaplain enters the room, although Meursault refuses to talk to him. An argument ensues, in which nothing less than faith in God and the mere existence of man is at stake.