In Passy, Paris, 1895. The young widow Hélène calls the doctor Henri Deberle during the night, when her daughter Jeanne suddenly gets breathless. Together they spend the night at the bedside, and it develops from a trusting encounter a love relationship. When the doctor Hélène one day confesses his love, the daughter comes from jealousy in another, life-threatening crisis. A film adaptation of the eponymous novel by Émile Zola, which addresses the social milieu of the bourgeois family in the "Second Empire".
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Character: Hélène
Character: Le docteur Henri Deberle
Character: Jeanne
Character: Juliette Deberle
Character: Lucien Deberle
Character: M. Rambaud
Character: L'abbé Jouve
Character: Rosalie
Character: Pauline, soeur de Juliette
Character: Malignon
Character: Le père de Pauline et Juliette
Character: Pierre, le domestique
Character: Miss Smithson, la nurse
Character: Le docteur Bodin