Potiche plot
"France, 1977: Women's Liberation is in the air"
1977, Suzanne Pujol lives in the bourgeois town of Sainte-Gudule in the north of France. She is the devoted and homely wife of wealthy industrialist Robert Pujol. He runs his umbrella factory with an iron hand. The gruff boss tyrannizes his workers and runs the same reign of terror at home. When the workers go on strike for better working conditions, Robert has a heart attack and has to take a rest, all hell breaks loose. Suzanne is forced to take over her husband's job with the help of her former sweetheart and current union leader Maurice (Gérard Depardieu). To everyone's surprise, Suzanne turns out to be a skilled businesswoman who knows how to get things done. But when Robert returns from vacation fully rested, things get complicated.