Overview
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".
Cast
Hélène
Le docteur Henri Deberle
Jeanne
Juliette Deberle
Lucien Deberle
M. Rambaud
L'abbé Jouve
Rosalie
Pauline, soeur de Juliette
Malignon
Le père de Pauline et Juliette
Pierre, le domestique
