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An unassuming housewife takes over her husband’s risqué business in Sky Arts’ edgy new French comedy drama


Natacha Lindinger stars as middle-class Catholic house- wife Sophie, who learns following his sudden death that her husband had been lying to her about his job for 16 years. She discovers that, instead of working in computing as she had believed, he had remortgaged their house against his own X-rated film company and had been financing their affluent lifestyle with the profit from his adult movies.


Desperate to keep up with the mortgage repayments, prudish Sophie finds she has no choice but to take over as producer and throws herself into a macho universe that simultaneously intrigues and repulses her. Humour arises as she battles to balance the bright lights and brazen characters of the studio with the quiet comfort of her home life, teenage children and well-to-do friends.


Against the unlikely backdrop of the studio, she meets leading adult film actor Roy. Torn between her attraction to him and her duty to mourn her husband, she forms an ambivalent relationship with the aspiring comedian, soon learning that he is as pigeonholed by his choice of profession as she is by her class.


A clever and witty manipulation of stereotypes, this six-part series written and directed by Cathy Verney is the story of a woman hurled out of her comfort zone. Bolstering Sky Arts’ commitment to foreign drama, it follows hugely successful series Romanzo Criminale, Prisoners of War, Maison Close and Grand Hotel.


January Episodes: 6


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