It's 1944, and Duras is an active Resistance
member along with her husband, writer Robert Antelme, and a band of fellow
subversives in Nazi-occupied Paris. When Antelme is deported to Dachau by the
Gestapo, she becomes friendly with French collaborator Rabier (Benoît Magimel)
to gain information at considerable risk to her underground cell. But as the
months wear on without news of her husband, she must begin the process of
confronting the unimaginable. Through subtly expressionistic images and
voiceover passages of Duras' writing, Finkiel evokes the inner world of one of
the 20th century's most revolutionary writers.