Character Relationship Map: A Model Employee

Characters

• François Maurey (played by François Berléand) — protagonist

  Protagonist and IT company boss in his forties. Amid a marital crisis, he takes in and hires a mysterious woman named Florence, becoming her lover. After she kills her husband, he aids in covering up...

• Florence (played by Delphine Rollin) — protagonist

  A mysterious young woman who enters François's life as an employee and lover. She kills her abusive husband during a violent confrontation and goes into hiding. Later orchestrates events to evade hitm...

• Caroline Maurey (played by Nicole Calfan) — supporting

  François's wife. The couple is experiencing a marital crisis. While François goes on the run, he contacts her to request that they sell their country house.

• Marianne Maurey (played by Leslie Phils) — supporting

  François's daughter. She waits for him in her car and assists him in blowing up his own factory before they flee to go into hiding together.

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• François Maurey → Marianne Maurey (Family Father And Daughter) — Marianne actively helps her father during his flight by waiting for him and accompanying him to the factory before they go into hiding.

  Marianne is identified as François's daughter. She waits for him in her car, and they go to the factory, which François blows up before they leave to...

• François Maurey → Caroline Maurey (Family Estranged Spouses) — Their marriage is in crisis while François becomes involved with Florence. Even while fleeing, he contacts Caroline and asks her to sell the country house.

  The plot describes François as being in a marital crisis. While on the run, he sends news to his wife and asks her to sell their country house.

• François Maurey → Florence (Romantic Lover Drawn Into Her Deception) — Their affair draws François into Florence's violent and deceptive circumstances. He helps conceal the apparent killing, while Florence later summons him to her hotel and asks whether a house nearby is...

  François takes Florence in and hires her, and they become lovers. After Florence's husband appears and is killed, François helps dispose of the body;...

Story Analysis

A businessman drawn into a lover's dangerous deception attempts to escape mounting threats while his family and business are pulled into the fallout.

Plot Progression

1. A Patent and a New Arrival — François manages a provincial IT company while working on a patent sought by an American company. Amid a marital crisis, he takes in and hires Florence, and their relationship becomes intimate.
2. Violence in the Apartment — Florence's husband bursts into François's apartment and fights with him. Florence kills her husband, and she and François dispose of the body.
3. A Disappearance Under Scrutiny — Florence hides at François's country house as police investigate a disappearance and fail to find anyone matching her identity. François discovers Florence bound there, then her husband appears, havin...
4. Flight Through a Web of Threats — Impostors posing as police stop François, and police later report finding a couple's bodies. Florence summons François to a hotel, where two killers arrive and a policeman gives him a chance to escape...
5. A Destroyed Factory and a New Hiding Place — Marianne waits for François, and the two go to his factory, which he blows up before they flee. François sends word to his wife and daughter, asks them to sell the country house, and Florence arrives...