Paulette Van Der Beck (Juliette Binoche) and her husband (François Berléand) have been running the housekeeping school of Bitche in Alsace-Moselle for many years. Their mission is to train teenage girls to become the perfect housewives at a time when women were expected to be subservient to their husband.

After the sudden death of her husband, Paulette discovers that the school is on the verge of bankruptcy and has to take her responsibilities. But while preparations are underway for the best housekeeping competition TV show, she and her lively students start questioning their beliefs as the nation-wide protests of May 1968 transform society around them.

Reunited with her first love, André (Edouard Baer), and with the help of her eccentric stepsister Gilberte (Yolande Moreau) and strict nun Marie-Thérèse (Noémie Lvovsky), Paulette joins forces with the schoolgirls to overcome their suppressed status and become liberated women.

How To Be A Good Wife is a humorous and satirical take on a universal story about solidarity and gender equality.

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波萊特（茱麗葉畢諾許 飾）和丈夫長年在法國阿爾薩斯的比奇開設一所家政學校，在那個婦女對丈夫百依百順的年代，他們的任務是訓練年輕女孩成為完美的家庭主婦。在丈夫驟逝後，波萊特發現學校處於破產邊緣，她必須肩負起拯救學校的責任。在準備參加一個家政競賽電視節目的過程中，正值1968年五月風暴全國抗爭之時，波萊特和她的活潑學生們一直以來的信念，也逐漸開始動搖。於此同時，波萊特與初戀重逢，並加入了女學生們的陣營，一同克服被壓迫的狀態，走向成為自由女性的康莊大道。