Le journal d'une femme de chambre (Diary of a Chambermaid)

In the late 1920s, a young woman, Célestine, leaves Paris to take up the post of a chambermaid with the Monteils, a bourgeois family living in rural France. Célestine’s initial observation that life in the country is trite is soon disproved when she discovers that the Monteuils are barely on speaking terms, their father, Monsieur Rabour, has an obsessive shoe fetish, and their servant Joseph is an extreme right-ring activist. After the death of Monsieur Rabour, Célestine decides to give up her job, but changes her mind after a little girl is raped and murdered. Suspecting Joseph of the crime, she offers him sexual favours, whilst secretly looking for the evidence that will incriminate him…