Cowards improbable farce of 1941 about connubial love and hisses from beyond the grave is not, despite its subject, an immortal work.
But they are forbidden connubial happiness when it is revealed that Rochester is still married to a gibbering lunatic whom he is forced to keep locked in his attic.
For Nasira (Francis Benhamou), a Syrian-born Muslim, future connubial bliss has taken the dismaying form of a hirsute hopeful from the homeland.