In The Thieving Magpie, Robert Guédiguian returns to his Marseille family—Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, the working-class apartments and port-side streets—but knots them into one of his sharpest moral dilemmas. Maria, an overworked home-care aide with a good heart and an empty wallet, quietly steals small sums from the elderly people she tends in order to support her grandson, just as her daughter falls in love with the son of one of her clients.