

Gilles' wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him, suspects during her third pregnancy that he is having an affair with her coquettish younger sister, Victorine. Elise suffers, usually in silence. She listens to her husband rave; she asks her priest; she breaks picture frames; she weeps. She decides on a strategy to keep him. Will she succeed?
Elisa

Gilles

Victorine

Dancer Valse / Tango / Java.

La mère d'Élisa

Le père d'Élisa
La jumelle #1
La jumelle #2
L'homme à la cigarette

L'ouvrier moqueur

Le jeune danseur

Le patron du café

Maréchal

Le jeune soldat
Marthe
Le fils de Marthe
Gillou
Gillou
Gillou
Gillou
Gillou
Gillou
L'ouvrier ami de Gilles