Some years later Mélanie, having studied hard, finds a work experience placement at a solicitors.

Befriending the boy, Melanie encourages him to prepare a full piano recital performance for the father's return to the family home after a business trip.

Melanie's perfectly timed page turning, combined with her composure and apparent empathy, enable Ariane to recover a confidence in performance that she thought she had lost after a traumatic car crash.

A very close and intimate relationship is established between the two women with Mélanie becoming obsessed with Ariane in order to get revenge for the humiliation that she suffered as a child.

The website's consensus reads: "Reminiscent of Hitchcock and Chabrol, The Page Turner is elegant yet suspenseful, a revenge potboiler of a high degree.