It is in those moments that she decides never to let a man into the house and not to become a woman. Growing up beside a father who drowns his sorrow in drink, Marie conducts their conversations via the intercom of his former clinic.
“She had not married a doctor to fall into disgrace,” Marie notes about her mother, whom she had previously lost to suicide. He simply could not continue to live with a medical blunder he had made in the past his wife even less so. We find her selling the family home, where her father, the village doctor and a fan of Virginia Woolf, took his own life.
We soon learn that Marie, in her early twenties, has not been spared life’s difficulties.
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