In France in the mid-20th century, two women, Lena (Isabelle Huppert) and Madeleine (Miou-Miou), meet at a Christmas concert at their children's school and feel an instant rapport, sharing their war experiences and their unhappiness with stifling marriages. Lena married to keep from getting deported for being Jewish during the German occupation of France in World War II. Madeleine, after her first husband was killed by the French secret police, wed Costa (Jean-Pierre Bacri) in a similarly loveless marriage of convenience. As the women grow closer, each giving the other the strength they need, Lena's husband, Michel (Guy Marchand), becomes jealous of their relationship. Madeleine, who has become increasingly less tolerant of Costa's chronic womanizing, finally leaves him and moves to Paris, believing that Lena will eventually join her there.

Director Diane Kurys, who mined her own life story to great effect in her first two films, PEPPERMINT SODA and COCKTAIL MOLOTOV, here builds an eloquent, elliptical narrative based on her mother's experiences. Buoyed by superb ensemble acting and Kurys's sure-handed touch with period detail, ENTRE NOUS is a subtle, moving depiction of both the painful deterioration of two marriages and the transformative power of friendship.