A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores and takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. Slowly, her ritualized daily routines begin to fall apart.
Following over two dozen different people in the almost wordless atmosphere of a dark night in a Brussels town, Akerman examines acceptance and rejection in the realm of romance.
During the filming of "Jeanne Dielman" Sami Frey recorded what was happening on the set. A film about a film in the making.
Found footage using Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman.
