Marie-Claude Poirier

Catherine married Jérôme, a wealthy landowner living in North Africa, from a bourgeois but noxious background. While living in total family harmony, she is seized by a mystical crisis following a vision of a cleric in ecstasy. She abandons her home and worldly possessions to take a job as a maid. After a bumpy road that severely tested her spirituality, Catherine found peace by returning to live with her devoted partner.

Un couple qui se défait : lui, coureur automobile devenu coureur de jupons, elle, qui noie sa crainte de vieillir dans l'alcool. Survient une jeune institutrice. Elle tombe amoureuse de lui, mais il refuse de faire sa vie avec elle et part seul. L'épouse se suicide.