The Woman in the Fifth

“What you can not resist, you may not survive”

Tom Ricks (Ethan Hawke) can feel Paris turning against him, though he can't say how, only that it began when he arrived. He is an American writer who crossed the ocean to be near his young daughter, and he has almost no money left. Pawlikowski follows him into an affair with Margit (Kristin Scott Thomas), a widow he meets there, while a dark force takes hold of his life and puts his place in his daughter's world at risk.