The story of a troubled American academic and failed writer who recently lost his job and has been unable to finish his second novel. We meet him at a turning point in his life where his wife, played by Delphine Chuillot, left him and moved to Paris. Tom decides to travel to France to win back his estranged wife and six-year-old daughter. He wants to get back on his feet and write the long awaited second novel. But things start turning against him and he crosses paths with the infamous Woman in the Fifth - Kristin Scott Thomas who he becomes obsessed with. Lossely based on Douglas Kennedy's thriller by the same title, "The Woman in the Fifth is a film of many meanings", the film's directro says, "it’s not to be analysed but felt. Let the viewer switch off his rational brain for a moment and feel the movie as if he were listening to music".
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