Malentès a Moscou

Nicole and André are a couple of retired French teachers who travel to Moscow to visit Masha, his daughter, born from a first marriage. In a subtle game of thoughts and reflections of the two main characters, apart from their traveling activities, their awareness of their lives at the present moment is configured, as if the distancing from their usual Parisian life acted as a revulsive to acquire a final knowledge of themselves and their relationship. The author uses her characters to address personal issues such as a couple crisis, the fear of aging or the feeling of failure for not having reached the goal of her youthful ambitions, and, at the same time, inspired by her stays with Sartre in the Union Soviet during the 1960s, contrasts the enthusiasm for that country in their first contacts with the subsequent disappointment at the disappearance of a pure and dreamed of socialist ideal.