The Flower of Evil

2003
Director: Claude Chabrol
Main cast: Nathalie Baye, Benoit Magimel, Suzanne Flon
Production: MK2 Films (formerly MK2)
Distributer : MK2 Movies

Synopsis: Can guilt be passed down, like certain illnesses, from generation to generation? What effects can an unacknowledged sin have on the guilty party, but also on their descendants and family? At the end of World War II, in the poisonous atmosphere of settling scores related to collaboration, a woman is acquitted of a crime she may have committed. An anonymous leaflet addressed to her descendants brings this past trauma back to the surface.