Entering the housekeeping school directed by Paulette Van der Beck (Juliette Binoche) in a village in Alsace in 1967 is entering a world of yesteryear as exotic as that of the little model girls or the young ladies of Saint-Cyr . Adamo sings Tombe la neige , the boarders wear blue blouses, sleep in a dormitory watched by sister Marie-Thérèse (Noémie Lvovski).
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Education, punctuated by the dry clapping of hands or brief reminders to Paulette, impeccable metronome, consists in learning the seven pillars of domestic wisdom, which range from housework to bodily hygiene and conjugal duty. Duty which Paulette fulfills with a certain negligence with her old husband (François Berléand). Fortunately, her students do not attend the practical work, because there are some sassy among them who would not fail to take it up. Moreover, Mr. Van der Beck was quick to bow out, which opened up for new adventures, all the more
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