Patrick Bauchau

Lena is getting bored with her loveless marriage to Michel. She meets Madeleine, a young and liberated woman who is also tired of her weak-willed husband: an increasingly powerful friendship springs up between the two. Lena leaves Michel in order to join Madeleine in Paris...

A young woman, so unhappy with her life that she attempts suicide, undergoes a religious conversion when she is comforted by members of a cult. Her involvement with the cult leads to a frightening and ultimately tragic denouement.