Christine et Léa sont deux sœurs au passé déjà difficile et dont les rapports s'avèrent ambigus. Mme Lancelin les prend à son service en tant que bonnes. Christine voit en Mme Lancelin une figure de mère idéale malgré sa sévérité. Mais la mauvaise influence de la mère des deux jeunes sœurs est très néfaste et la situation se dégrade. Les sœurs se renferment et finissent par commettre le pire en assassinant Mme Lancelin et sa fille après 6 ans de service.
Christine Papin (Sylvie Testud), and Léa Papin (Julie-Marie Parmentier) are sisters with a troubled past, who work as maids in Le Mans, France. After a string of domestic jobs, they start working for the Lancelin family, which consists of Monsieur Lancelin, his wife and their adult daughter Genevieve. Christine sees in Madame Lancelin a mother figure, in spite of her severity. But their wretched background — an indifferent mother, a drunken, abusive father and time spent in orphanages — casts a shadow over the girls. Over time, their ill-fated situation darkens and they withdraw into themselves. Finally, after six years of service, they end up committing a particularly brutal crime on February 2, 1933: killing Madame Lancelin and her daughter after gouging their eyes out.
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