Acclaimed director Claude Miller's elegant final film adapted from the novel by François Mauriac. Thérèse (Audrey Tautou) has married less for love than for convenience, but it is not long before the casual disinterest shown her by her arrogant husband, Bernard (Gilles Lellouche), sets her mind in motion. In order to break free from the fate imposed upon her and live the full life she dreams of, Thérèse decides to apply her poisonous outlook in literal terms…but her extreme measures will bring extreme consequences.