Boat captain, Jakob decides to marry, without much conviction: he will marry the first woman who will cross the door of the café where he is.
Fate then sends him Lizzy, sublime, free, mysterious.
And what was only a formality for the sailor turns into an amorous obsession: is she faithful to him when he sails?
Does she sincerely love him and does he really know her?
Is she just a greedy manipulator?
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Adapted from a novel by Hungarian Milán Füst,
My Wife's Story
dissects the relationship between these two beings that everything seems to oppose and, through it, the universal torments of love.
All in a setting of as fascinating beauty as the interpretation of Léa Seydoux and Gijs Naber, a Dutch actor who we hope to find very soon on our screens.
The Story of My Wife
, by Ildikó Enyedi, with Léa Seydoux, Gijs Naber, Louis Garrel.