Leïla Slimani

Adèle appears to have the perfect life. A respected journalist, she lives in a Parisian apartment with her surgeon husband and their son. But beneath the veneer she is bored - and consumed by an insatiable need for sex, whatever the cost. Struggling to contain the compulsion, she begins to orchestrate her life around her one night stands and affairs, until she becomes ensnared in a trap of her own making.

When Myriam, a lawyer, decides to return to work after having children, she and her husband find Louise, a quiet, polite and devoted woman as the perfect caretaker for their two young children. But the couple and nanny become more dependent on each other, and as jealousy, resentment and suspicions increase, Myriam and Paul's idyllic tableau is shattered...