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Directed and scripted by Melanie Laurent, and based on Victoria Mas' novel of the same name, the richly cinematic costume drama follows the story of Eugénie Cléry , a well-heeled French girl living in Belle Époque Paris in 1885. Eugénie is smart, an avid reader and a rebellious character with an interest in spiritualism. She also sees dead people.
Here, Eugénie finds herself among other"mad" women, many of whom have been driven to depressive or psychotic states by the same men who claim to be looking after them.uncle, only to be harassed by one of the doctors; Marguerite , a former pickpocket and sex worker who"suffers" from outbursts of rage; and Therese, an older woman who was brought to the hospital for pushing her husband into the Seine River.
As she's put under the care of the sanatorium's head nurse Geneviève , Eugénie struggles to adapt to life at Salpêtrière.
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