The abandonment of this film is what allowed the production of Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) to flourish instead.
The film's plot would have been a story of a working-class father and his son who's lives change considerably. Agnès Varda envisioned five actors playing the son character.
The unfinished footage is included as a special feature on the Criterion Blu-ray of One Hundred and One Nights (1995) alongside another unfinished film by Agnès Varda, Christmas Carole (1966).
The one filming location that managed to be used for the film are the salt marshes near the Mediterranean resort of Sète in France, a protected wetland area, managed by the Conservatoire du Littoral.
For the casting, François Truffaut, Pierre Braunberger, and Sophia Loren were originally supposed to perform before the film was abandoned due to a lack of funding and production difficulties.
