Movie Description:
Writing her several letters aday for five years, 23 year-oldYann is eventually summoned to meet the reclusive 65 year-old writer at herseaside apartment in the quiet resort ofTrouville. Their instant rapport initiates a stormy and complex relationship that endures for sixteenyears; alternately comforting and mocking, intimidating and charming, dictatorial anddependent. Duras functions as a mentor, mother, lover andemployer for her young admirer,while hein turn becomes a crucial presence in her life, rousing the heavy-drinking writer into a final burst of creativity.