When Blanche meets the charismatic Gregoire, she thinks she has found the one, a passionate affair ensues, and they soon relocate far from Blanche’s family, where her new life begins: having two children, working as an elementary school teacher, and learning to tiptoe around Gregoire’s unfounded burgeoning insecurities. Little by little, Blanche finds herself caught in the grip of a deeply possessive and dangerous man, desperate to escape his increasingly threatening affections.