Based on the Marguerite Duras play of the same name, Suzanna Andler (Charlotte Gainsbourg) is the portrait of a woman trapped in her marriage to a wealthy, unfaithful businessman in the 1960s. She must choose between her conventional destiny as a wife and mother, and her freedom, embodied by her young lover (Niels Schneider).
Based on the Marguerite Duras play of the same name, Suzanna Andler (Charlotte Gainsbourg) is the portrait of a woman trapped in her marriage to a wealthy, unfaithful businessman in the 1960s. She must choose between her conventional destiny as a wife and mother, and her freedom, embodied by her young lover (Niels Schneider).