End of Desire

A one-man woman...and a man of many loves...then...the...

A melancholic 19th-century drama about marital betrayal and disillusionment, centered on a woman's discovery that her romantic hopes have been built on deception.

Normandy, second half of the nineteenth century. Jeanne Dandieu lives in a manor house with her parents and their servant Rosalie. She gets to know Julien, a handsome man, whom she soon marries. Her happiness is short-lived as she finds out that not only has Julien married her for her money but he cheats on her as well, with Rosalie to crown it all.