"You wear a tightly belted beige trenchcoat and you live in a cavernous show-home bedecked with mid-century pine and fashionably inadequate lighting. You are French. You have two uncommonly beautiful teenage children and are preparing to return to your prestigious role at a maison de couture after the recent birth of your uncommonly beautiful baby. But mon Dieu, you are anxious!"
"The solution? You will hire an enigmatic au pair. Alas, you have never watched television and are thus unaware that this will expose faultlines in your marriage and lead to a series of increasingly terrifying events that will threaten the very fabric of your existence. You are Paula (Melanie Doutey), the protagonist of four-part French thriller The Intruder, and you are, 'ow you say, stuffed."
Paula, a fashion maison executive, prepares to return to work after giving birth while living in a cavernous, stylishly furnished home with two unusually beautiful teenage children. She and her husband Jerome hire Tess, an enigmatic au pair who instantly charms baby Orso but exhibits unsettling behavior: prowling the dark house, staring at toys, pawing Jerome's shirts, and making clandestine calls. Tess fabricates a reference and instructs her contact to lie. Her presence amplifies Paula's anxiety about balancing career and childcare, exposes fractures in the marriage, and sets off a sequence of increasingly terrifying events that threaten the family's stability.
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