Gemma Bovery

Martin Joubert had had enough of his life as a typical Parisian hipster and returned to his home village in Normandy. There, the literature lover has been living a quiet life as a baker for several years now. When an English couple named Charles and Gemma Bovery purchase a dilapidated property in his neighborhood, his vivid imagination is sparked. Is this similarity in names to the setting of Flaubert's famous novel a coincidence? Martin regularly walks his dog near the Boverys' house and gradually learns more about the strangers. He discovers eerie parallels between Gemma and the main character of his favorite novel, "Madame Bovary," and feels increasingly transported into the story. Eventually, the melancholic Martin falls in love with Gemma and hopes that her life will not end like that of Emma Bovary. He must warn her, but Gemma is not even familiar with this classic of world literature.