En Russie, une femme reçoit un jour par retour de courrier un colis qu'elle avait envoyé à son mari, qui purge une longue peine de prison. Après avoir tenté, sans grand succès, d'obtenir une explication auprès des services de la poste, elle n'a pas d'autre choix que de se rendre à la prison, pour tenter de délivrer le colis elle-même. Pour elle, c'est le début d'un long et éreintant voyage à travers le pays, avant d'affronter l'administration pénitentiaire...
The film opens with a falling scarf, leading us to a young woman's dead body on the street. From the later scenes, we understand that the young woman was Elle (Dominique Sanda), who steps off the balcony of her Parisian apartment, plunging to her death. Why has she done it? As her distraught husband, Luc (Guy Frangin), looks over her dead body, and explores what led her to kill herself in a talk to the maid, the picture traces their lives together in flashbacks. Elle is A Gentle Creature—meek, dreamy and thoughtful. She entrances Luc, who pursues her passionately. They marry, but the match never seems right. The story reveals their desperate, despairing miscommunication. Though they try many diversions (theater, television, films) these are momentary respites for the two of them (for Elle more-so, as we see with her interest in ''Hamlet'', which plays out in an extended scene). Their dialogue only deepens her isolation and sadness.
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