L’Escalier de fer

A crime drama inspired by the novel of Georges Simenon. Winter 1963. Etienne Lome, a sales rep for his wife Louise's printing shop, is taken violently ill after eating. He gradually becomes convinced that Louise is trying to poison him, and starts to entertain suspicions about the death of her first husband, Guillaume. But could Etienne, provoked by his intense and seemingly reciprocated love for Louise, be fantasising? And what about the mysterious phone calls she gets? Has he been dreaming them too? But then Dr Doer, at Etienne's request, prescribes more in-depths tests... (official distributor synopsis)