is a play which investigates different themes, including: Women’s relationships to each other when faced with the knowledge that they “share” the same man; different attitudes and behaviour dictated by upbringing; a woman’s relationship with her mother as she reaches adulthood.

Christine is a bourgeois French woman of around 30, rich, beautiful and with every privilege that French society can offer. But then she discovers that her husband is having a long-term relationship with another woman. So she decides that the best thing to do is to grasp the nettle and meet her. 

Her surprise is total when she discovers that the woman in question is not only much older, but from a social class that Christine would normally never meet.  What’s more, this woman – Lydia - has a very high-powered job and elevated income. 

Lydia has a deep-seated hatred of the bourgeoisie due to her mother’s experience as a cleaning lady for a family similar to Christine’s. That’s why, at the beginning of the play, she sets up a plan to take revenge on Christine for the perceived humiliation that her mother suffered.  However this plan goes wrong and Lydia finds herself in an awkward situation. 

Christine also has a serious problem concerning sex and the very sexually liberated Lydia decides that she can help Christine get in touch with her sexuality.

As the play progresses, we learn about Lydia’s and Christine’s backgrounds and they discover that deep-seated ideas can be challenged by understanding another person.  
The final scene brings the women together in ways that neither imagined possible: it is a celebration of the solidarity that women can share.