The Women on the 6th Floor

“Help is on the way.”

Jean-Louis Joubert (Fabrice Luchini), a stockbroker in early 1960s Paris, wants nothing more than for his orderly, dull days to go on exactly as they are. Then his wife Suzanne (Sandrine Kiberlain) hires Maria (Natalia Verbeke), and Maria leads him up to the servants' rooms on the sixth floor of the building he owns. Philippe Le Guay fills that attic with a crowd of Spanish maids, and Jean-Louis climbs the stairs again, tie still knotted.