An all-star array of Gallic actresses - Fanny Ardant, Emmanuelle Beart, Danielle Darrieux, Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Ledoyen, Firmine Richard and Ludivine Sagnier - shines in director/co-scripter Francois Ozon's lush mix of melodrama, musical and drawing room murder mystery. A snowstorm has stranded the women in Deneuve's country estate... with her husband in the bedroom with a knife in his back! Loyalties and rivalries are formed as the eight debate which, if any, of them is the killer.