Sheep

A wealthy man in a village wants to educate his son in a leading school in the town. With the help of a government minister, the son is admitted to school in town and stays at the minister's house. There he gets addicted to drugs and ruins his life. The Minister sends the boy back home and the parents are helpless. The father who is furious takes a rifle to kill the son.

Twenty years after having tried to kill her husband, Thérèse, who is ill, struggles along in the solitude of her Parisian apartment. One day, her daughter Marie arrives at the door. Besotted with Mourad, she'd like her help. Thérèse meets him and quickly realizes that he prefers her to Marie.

Clare is a gossip columnist, enjoying life at the fringes of high society. She writes an indiscreet story, and suddenly falls from favor. She requires help from a Cambridge don in order to recover her position.