
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.
Marie Saint-Jean

Eliane Saint-Jean

Psychoanalyst

Guillaume Talbiac

François

Michèle

Bertheas

Marie's father

Jeanne
Marie, child
Nurse

Intern
Nurse
Finchel

Rudolph
Editor

Nany
Woman at the bar
Metro station chief

Young tango dancer

Aristide
Child
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TV show presenter (uncredited)
