一场意外中，康斯坦特（丹尼尔·奥图 Daniel Auteuil 饰）锒铛入狱。他的妻子珍妮（萨宾·阿泽玛 Sabine Azéma 饰）来到了监狱中，她告诉康斯坦特自己将要离开他，去和其他人结婚了，这让康斯坦特大发雷霆但也只能在铁窗后面无能狂怒。因为情绪过于激动，康斯坦特竟然脑溢血发作了，他被送进医院接受紧急治疗，虽然保住了老命，但是病灶影响了…

The film starts pretty slow and straight-forwardly. Good, but almost ordinary storytelling. The setting is the 1920's in Bucharest and we get to have a feeling of that time and place. We learn of the obvious traits of all the characters. Emilia is promiscuous. Ladima is too nice and platonic (man of integrity). Fred wa…