剧情介绍
影片讲述的是二十世纪三十年代的一个工人家庭。埃莉萨是吉勒的妻子，她在家里照顾孩子和家庭，整天就在家中等待丈夫回家。吉勒在锅炉厂工作，有时上夜班，有时上日班。维多利亚是埃莉萨的妹妹，她刚刚才在镇上的店里开始工作。维多利亚经常来看望她的姐姐，和埃莉萨的孩子玩，帮着她干些家里的活。埃莉萨怀孕了。她的脑中出现了些关于吉勒和维多利亚他们两个人的奇怪想法。但是埃莉萨还是不想去相信她的臆想，怀孕的女人总是有着变幻莫测的心情。有一天，她的猜想成为了现实，她能肯定吉勒和维多利亚有着暧昧关系。在埃莉萨的心中开始了奇怪的斗争，勇气、沉默和自我牺牲，成为了她唯一的武器。她的信念就是要重新得到她所失去的东西，重新成为吉勒的妻子
Gilles' wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him, suspects during her third pregnancy that he is having an affair with her coquettish younger sister, Victorine. Elise suffers, usually in silence. She listens to her husband rave; she asks her priest; she breaks picture frames; she weeps. She decides on a strategy to keep him. Will she succeed?
