Marie is a 35-year-old door-to-door encyclopedia saleswoman living a stable middle-class life outside Paris. She has a loving husband, François, and a young son, but she feels an inexplicable lack of fulfillment. Her routine is shattered when she meets Bill, a reclusive African American choreographer on sabbatical, and begins an intense, graphic affair. Plot Highlights
The film concludes with a sense of "boundless, faint melancholy," mirrored by the soundtrack "Holes" by Mercury Rev . Key Information Director Virginie Wagon Main Cast Le secret (2000)
Anne Coësens (Marie), Michel Bompoil (François), Tony Todd (Bill) 107–109 minutes Awards and a young son
What begins as curiosity turns into a "sordid illicit affair". Marie becomes like an "addict," unable to stop despite the destruction it causes to her family. and begins an intense
