When Anne-Marie (Delphine Seyrig), the wife of the French vice-consul, grows weary of her oppressive life in 1930s India, she compulsively makes love so as to forget her situation. Her husband (Michel Lonsdale) is aware of her affairs but understands the cause of them and affects not to notice. Curiously, the mansion--so strongly evocative of India--where most of the movie was filmed, was just outside of Paris ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide