Twenty years have passed. Thérèse lives alone in Paris. We exiled her there. She seems to be asking nothing more for life. She is sick and lives in slow motion. One day, we ring rue du Bac. It is Mary, her daughter, whom she sees so little. She is twenty years old now and comes to see her to escape her middle-class south-west. She is very in love with a boy, she expects from her mother a support, a freedom of point of view. His name is Murad. The arrival of her daughter awakens Therese with her reserve and torpor. It does not shock Mary, who is very busy with her love. Thérèse proposes to meet Mourad. She quickly understands that he is not willing to marry Mary but wants her without wanting to bond more deeply to her. It is she Therese, that the young man looks ... She wanted to help her daughter to be happy, a wish too official not to be suspicious. Here she is delivered to the power of her own seduction ...
Adaptación de la novela homónima de François Mauriac (publicada en 1927). Se centra en Thérèse, una joven mujer libre de principios del siglo XX. Casada por obligación con Bernard Desqueyroux, insensible a los placeres de la carne, insatisfecha en el plano intelectual y, en general, aburrida de esperar, Thérèse, en un arrebato absurdo y desesperado, intenta envenenar a su esposo. Una vez desenmascarada, Thérèse cae en desgracia al haber deshonrado a su familia y a su marido. Ahora, además, tendrá que enfrentarse a la justicia.
Adaptación de la novela homónima del escritor francés François Mauriac. Cuando Thérèse Desqueyroux es absuelta por un tribunal de haber intentado envenenar a su marido Bernard, recapitula los acontecimientos que la condujeron a ser acusada de intento de asesinato. La gris y monótona vida provinciana y unas convenciones sociales asfixiantes la llevaron a contraer matrimonio con un hombre anódino e inspido, al cual sólo le preocupaba mantener sus propiedades y el buen nombre de la familia. El enigma consiste en saber si se trató de un accidente, si Thérése aumentó premeditadamente la dosis de la medicina que Bernard tomaba o si lo planeó inconscientemente.
Marcelle de Barthas is young French widow, who since her husband’s death some seven years previously, has lived a secluded life in her country house, with her four children. The eldest one, Emmy, is a beautiful and pure young girl of seventeen, who tentatively believes she has a calling to the religious life. The second child, Bertrand, aged fifteen, has been sent to England for an exchange holiday with a young English boy, Harry Fanning, and when the play opens, the French children are excitedly awaiting his arrival. Also living with the family is a French governess, and a tutor, Blaise Lebel. Lebel has a sombre power over the family, and it is the ‘intrusion’ of Harry that sets in motion in him a wave of resentment and fear.
