Adrian Penketh’s adaptation of Maupassant’s first novel. Jeanne de Lamare – a sheltered and naive country aristocrat – leaves her convent education filled with thoughts of love and romance.
Lamare marries a smallminded local landowner, and begins to discover how rotten and treacherous adult life is all around her. Jeanne believes that conceiving a second child will heal the ache in her heart caused by a loveless marriage in a rotten world.
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