Gervaise Macquart, a young lame laundress, is left by his lover Auguste
Lantier with two boys... She manages to make it, and a few years later she
marries Coupeau, a zinc worker. After working very hard a few more years,
she succeeds buying his own laundry (her dream)... But Coupeau started to
drink after being fallen from a roof, and Lantier shows up... A faithful
adaptation of Emile Zola's novel "L'Assomoir", depicting the fatal
degeneration of a family of workers, mainly because of alcohol.