Marucha Bo

Simon lives in an affluent intellectual environment, headed by his mother Alice. Raphael, his cousin, belongs to the poor branch of the family, but Simon adores him. So he decides to help him become a writer.

Constance Dumas (Bulle Ogier) dirige un prestigioso curso de teatro, donde sólo se admiten mujeres. Cuatro de sus alumnas: Claude (Laurence Côte), Anna (Fejria Deliba), Joyce (Bernadette Giraud) y Lucia (Inês de Medeiros), forman una una especie de banda y viven juntas en una casa de los suburbios parisinos. Las cuatro chicas, una tras otra, se irán topando con Thomas (Régent), un misterioso desconocido que las alerta sobre el peligro que corre Cécile (Natalie Richard), una de sus amigas y compañera de clase. Cécile, mientras tanto, se muestra bastante inquieta y parece más fascinada por una enigmática historia de amor que por sus clases de teatro. (FILMAFFINITY)

In this eerie, atmospheric tale, a young woman is on a train when she sees some people she thinks she knows from her childhood. On arriving home, her husband tells her that a certain countess has died. At that point, the film cuts to a scene of the countess singing in a mausoleum while the visual image of the graveyard's many tombstones passes before one's eyes. Back home, the husband -- also a "father-figure" -- is looking over his collection of wooden angels. Some time elapses, and he surreptitiously sees a thief come down through the chimney, steal some things, and then leave. To combat any recurrence, he builds an iron, escape-proof cage around the fireplace, and then goes away on a trip. When he comes back, he finds the thief dead in the cage. Thus far, the camera has only shown the husband in profile or from the back. Then there is another story about a young girl, with a spiteful, nasty mother, who is trying to cope with her own attraction to a man.