Twenty years have passed Thérèse lives alone in Paris We exiled her there She seems to be asking nothing more for life She is sick and lives in slow motion One day we ring rue du Bac It is Mary her daughter whom she sees so little She is twenty years old now and comes to see her to escape her middleclass southwest She is very in love with a boy she expects from her mother a support a freedom of point of view His name is Murad The arrival of her daughter awakens Therese with her reserve and torpor It does not shock Mary who is very busy with her love Thérèse proposes to meet Mourad She quickly understands that he is not willing to marry Mary but wants her without wanting to bond more deeply to her It is she Therese that the young man looks She wanted to help her daughter to be happy a wish too official not to be suspicious Here she is delivered to the power of her own seduction
