Story of Women

With her loutish husband, Paul (François Cluzet), away at a labor camp during World War II, Marie Latour (Isabelle Huppert) struggles to support her two children. After helping a neighbor with an abortion, Marie realizes she can improve her family's finances by assisting other women who are trying to terminate unwelcome pregnancies. Paul returns home to find he has no place in his wife's new life -- so out of jealousy, after the war ends he reports her wartime activities to the authorities.