Plot
Based on a true story this emotionally wrenching character study focuses upon a desperate young wife who feigns an entire pregnancy in hopes of convincing her dissatisfied husband to remain with her Magalis problem comes from the fact that she is so bland and unassuming as to be nearly invisible Her passivity and inability to form her own opinions grates on her husband Alain a gogetter radio journalist and he plans to take a year long assignment in Canada to get away from her While preparing to leave his boss who has been inadvertently led to believe that Magli is pregnant shows up and tells Alain The husbands first response is to demand an abortion but on second thought he decides he would like to become a father after all Magli fearing that he will leave then devises her elaborate ruse