That Obscure Object of Desire

Synopsis

On a station platform in Seville, Mathieu, a wealthy Frenchman, empties a bucket of water from the train window over a young woman. His fellow passengers want to know why, so he tells them his story. He wanted Conchita from the moment she came to work in his house, and he has kept raising his offer ever since: money, a house, his name. She accepts everything, and still she tells him no.