费莉西泰，拥有一颗简单、神圣、本原和终极的心，如同上帝创世之心。失恋后的她在寡妇欧班太太家找了一份佣人的活，但是无论她多么忠诚勤劳，却始终不能赢得女主人的信任…… 影片根据福楼拜同名短篇小说《简单的心》改编，并获得2009年雅克·普雷韦剧本奖的最佳文学改编作品奖。女主角由法国演技女王桑德里娜·伯奈尔出演，这也是她第二次饰演女佣角色，她以其充满野性和极富张力的演技，诠释了原作，即生命的精彩和人性的高贵。

　　Filled with expectations, Etienne moves to Paris from Lyon to study film directing at the Sorbonne. He leaves behind his girlfriend Lucie, promising to call her regularly via Skype. On his course he meets Jean-Noël and Mathias, they too have come to the metropolis from smaller cities and share his passion for cinema. Together they discuss the cinematic canon, read texts by Flaubert and Pasolini, and listen to Bach and Mahler. Jean-Noël proves to be an agreeable friend who tries to strengthen Etienne’s fragile self-confidence; Mathias, on the other hand, often comes across as stern, aloof and mysterious. Fond of arguing, he has a habit of disappearing for weeks on end without the others knowing where he is. Nobody gets to see his student film, either. Etienne is particularly crestfallen when he discovers by chance that Mathias shares a secret with Annabelle, an idealistic young woman who lives in Etienne’s shared flat and with whom he is secretly in love. Jean Paul Civeyrac’s tenderly melancholic black-and-white study of these young people’s encounter with art and life is at the same time a declaration of love for classic cinema and the city of Paris.