Guillaume Nicloux directs this French-language adaptation of the novel by Denis Diderot. The film follows the fortunes of Suzanne (Pauline Etienne), the child of a wealthy family who is committed to a nunnery against her will. When informed by her mother Simonin (Martina Gedeck) that she is an illegitimate child, the reasons for her internment become clear to Suzanne: to ease the financial burden on her cash-strapped family and to alleviate her mother's feeling of having 'sinned' by giving birth to her. Suzanne's woes are multiplied by first-hand experience of the corruption and impiety of the church. Viciously abused by Supérieure Christine (Louise Bourgoin), Suzanne attempts to escape her plight through a series of letters begging authority figures to intervene and have her vows annulled. Will she manage to break free?

Foreign black comedy directed by Guillaume Nicloux starring Gérard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert as a previously married but now long-estranged couple Gérard and Isabelle. They are brought together again in Death Valley, California, by the suicide of their adult son Michael, whom neither Gérard or Isabelle has spoken to in years, who has left a letter stating that he will reappear to them in the valley at a specific time and location. Unsure whether this is Michael's way of seeking some form of revenge or whether the trip is designed to bring them together, Gérard and Isabelle reluctantly adhere to his instructions.