Le Secret. Ennio Morricone

David (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is a prisoner in some sort of torture chamber, a row of cells whose occupants, in straitjackets, are chained to their beds. David manages to escape from custody. On the run, he arrives at the home of a couple, Thomas (Philippe Noiret) and Julia (Marlène Jobert), living in an isolated farmhouse. David claims that he is in possession of an important secret, one that he came across by chance, that is so terrible that the authorities will do anything to protect it. He predicts, correctly, that the state will soon mobilize all its resources to find him, using as a cover story the claim that a paranoid killer is on the loose from an asylum. The couple are unsure whether to believe him, but give him some assistance.

This psychological thriller is primarily the source of one of Ennio Morricone's more evocative scores. The film is set to music that takes the opposite view of the thriller or the spy film and delivers the most extraordinary romantic music. Note the drops of water which fall to open the title track and which resumes the torture used on David Daguerre. The suspense music on the border of the avant-garde experiments (harps with echoes) is alternated to a nostalgic motif with the voice of Edda Dell'Orso. We can listen here the Main Theme and Dal Mare.