A psychological drama that details the tormented relationship between Marie and her mother, stemming from Marie's childhood on their estate in Algeria. The mother, Eliane had lost a child before Marie was born and was consumed with hatred for her husband who was carrying tuberculosis and may have been the cause of the child's death. That hatred was never resolved, and Marie grew up in a bitter and strained household. As both women grow older, Marie marries and raises a family while her mother sinks ever deeper into anger, frustration, poverty, and isolated despair. She vents her destructive emotions on her daughter and is completely resistant to her daughter's attempts to help her, to make her life better.
as Marie Saint-Jean
as Eliane Saint-Jean
as Psychoanalyst
as Guillaume Talbiac
as François
as Michèle
as Bertheas
as Marie's father
as Jeanne
as Marie, child
as Nurse
as Intern
as Nurse
as Finchel
as Rudolph
as Editor
as Nany
as Woman at the bar
as Metro station chief
as Young tango dancer
as Aristide
as Child
as (uncredited)
as TV show presenter (uncredited)
