Maléfique (2002): Cast & Plot

Carrère, a middle-class man convicted of financial fraud, arrives in a grim prison and finds himself sharing a cramped cell with three other inmates: Lassalle, an old librarian who murdered his wife; Pâquerette, a childlike lunatic who ate his infant sister; and Marcus, a muscular young transgender woman whose crime is not spoken aloud but whose longing for a different life crackles beneath the surface. The four men and one woman—each with their own secrets—tentatively form a fragile alliance as they try to make sense of their strange surroundings, a place where rules feel negotiable and danger lurks just behind the walls.