Un coeur simple

The story of a simple heart is simply the story of a dark life, that of a poor country girl, devoted but mystical, devoted without exaltation and tender as fresh bread. She successively loves a man, the children of her mistress, a nephew, an old man whom she heals, then her parrot; when the parrot is dead, she makes it stuff and, in turn, she confuses the parrot with the Holy Spirit by dying. This is not ironic as you suppose, but on the contrary very serious and very sad.