Pleasure

Alan Bleasdales modern retelling of Madame Bovary A tale of passion greed revenge and of course pleasure set in France Starring Line of Dutys Adrian Dunbar Jennifer Ehle and James Larkin In the French city of Rouen the beautiful young but bored Emma seeks to escape her dull married life Her dreams are answered and her comfortable peaceful existence soon tarnished when she answers a lonelyhearts ad She meets Gustave a unsuccessful toy salesman and potential con man Together they begin a passionate affair where they indulge in illicit sex and illegal scams But parallel to their exhilarating affair the police are on the hunt for a mysterious masked robber known only as Le Terroriste As the stakes rise and a betrayal means Emma finding herself alone her own talents for deception develop into an overwhelming and obsessive desire for her to get her revenge