All Joseph wants is to be let into Tartuffe's world. All Ettie wants is to escape it.
The year is 1920. The place is a remote farmhouse in Provence, home to the reclusive painter Edouard Tartuffe and his niece, Ettie. Into this strange, silent house walks a young journalist hoping to write an article about Tartuffe. But the more he entangles himself in the peculiar household, the more Joseph's curiosity grows . . .
Ettie cooks and cleans for her uncle. She prepares his studio, scrubs his paint...