La fin de la nuit

Twenty years have passed. Thérèse lives alone in Paris. We exiled her there. She seems to ask for nothing more from life. She is sick and lives in slow motion. One day, we call rue du Bac. It is Mary, her daughter, whom she sees so little. Mary is now twenty years old and has come to see her to escape the middle-class life of the south-west. She is very in love with a boy and expects from her mother support and a freedom of point of view. His name is Murad. The arrival of her daughter awakens Thérèse from her reserve and torpor. It does not shock Mary, who is very preoccupied with her love. Thérèse proposes to meet Murad. She quickly understands that he is not willing to marry Mary but wants her without wanting to form a deeper bond. It is Thérèse, in fact, that the young man is drawn to. She wanted to help her daughter be happy, a wish too formal not to be suspicious. Here she is now delivered to the power of her own seduction.