在这部可怕的父母剧情片中,让·考克多1948年作品。这部心理悲喜剧是一部室内剧，只有两个场景，没有外景，镜头非常静态，用大量特写来反映人物的内心世界以及家庭中各种复杂关系的微妙之处影片描写儿子的恋母情结以及父子之间的相互嫉妒。很多人推举此片为考克多最优秀的作品。。最值得称道的是空间封闭压抑感的营造以及女主角炉火纯青的表演。1953年英国重拍成《亲密关系》（Intimate Relations）。
When Michel, who's 22, tells his parents he is in love, his mother Yvonne is distraught, believing she will lose his love (which is the center of her life), and his father Georges is distressed because it is Georges' mistress, Madeleine, whom his son loves. Yvonne and Georges financially and emotionally depend on Michel's maiden aunt, Léo, who was once engaged to Georges but gave him up to her sister. Léo resolves to help them separate Michel and Madeleine, choreographs an elaborate meeting at Madeleine's flat where Georges concocts a lie that Madeleine feels she must embrace, and the lovers part. Aunt Léo then has a change of heart and tries to put everything right.
