In 1930s Paris, teenage schoolgirl Violette Nozière (Isabelle Huppert) rebels against her respectable middle-class background and strict parents (Jean Carmet and Stephane Audran) by spending her days hanging around in bars in the Latin Quarter, picking up men for money. She gets into further deep water when she meets and falls in love with a dissolute law student Jean Dabin (Jean-Franc Garreaud), and begins stealing money from her parents to support his gambling habit. Eventually she plots their murder in order to rescue him from debt…