Written and directed by Claude Chabrol. Based on the novel by Gustave Flaubert.

The story is well-known. Emma, daughter of a prosperous local landowner, marries Charles Bovary, the region's doctor (Jean-Francois Balmer).

She does it basically to get off her father's farm. Bovary moves her into town and provides her with a good house, nice clothes and mindless devotion.

But she is discontented. Finally, something different happens in her life. She is taken to the ball of a district aristocrat, and there she meets the dashing Rodolphe Boulanger (Christophe Malavoy), who has an affair with her and promises to elope with her.