On the East Coast of the United States, the American Indian Louis Lane, the last representative of a doomed tribe, whose call of the horizon and death gradually becomes more urgent, goes in search of and to marry on the other side of the ocean a unique being, Martha, the submissive Frenchwoman who has the power and the will to uproot him from his environment and keep him close to her.
In the United States, they guard the estate of businessman Thomas Pollock Nazouar and his wife Letty, an emancipated actress. The tensions and desires of this mismatched quartet lead them to conflicts and a provocative purchase. One proposes to buy the wife of the other.
This drama, The Exchange, shows us one of those conflicts where lovers, despite the mutual attraction born precisely from their opposition, are separated because their interests clash. It is the wildest and most provocative work of Claudel, whose ambiguous personality is shared among these four heated characters.
