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.
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Nicole Garcia as Marie Saint-Jean
Marie-Christine Barrault as Eliane Saint-Jean
Daniel Mesguich as Psychoanalyst
Claude Rich as Guillaume Talbiac
Jean-Luc Boutté as François
Michèle Baumgartner as Michèle
Jean-Louis Foulquier as Bertheas
Robin Renucci as Marie's father
Céline Blanc-Potard as Jeanne
Violaine Gonce as Marie, child
Denise Noël as Nurse
Bernard Montagner as Intern
Annie Noël as Nurse
Robert Party as Finchel
Rudolph Monori as Rudolph
Marie Cardinal as Editor
Chaabia Laadraoui as Nany
Marie-Jo Hareux as Woman at the bar
Anne-Marie Jabraud as Metro station chief
Zakia Tahiri as Young tango dancer
Adrien Kauffmann as Aristide
Guillaume as Child
Mariusz Pujszo as
Tomasz Białkowski as
Jean Dolande as
Mitzi Hahn as
Maud Léthéo as
Christiane Meriel as
Gérard Lester as (uncredited)
Léon Zitrone as TV show presenter (uncredited)
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