Le Journal d'une femme de chambre

Célestine, a stylish and attractive young chambermaid from Paris, arrives at a provincial estate and joins a household staff that includes a cook, a timid maid named Marianne, and Joseph, the groom, who spends his evenings writing nationalistic, anti-Semitic leaflets with a friend. When the father dies, Célestine decides to quit her job and leave, but when a young girl is raped and murdered, Celestine believes that the Monteils' groundskeeper, Joseph, is guilty, and stays on in order to prove it. She uses her sexuality and the promise of marriage to get Joseph to confess -- but things do not go as planned. Jeanne Moreau plays Célestine, a Parisian chambermaid who navigates perversion, corruption, and violence in a provincial estate.