Christiane Barry

Micheline, a young woman from the provinces, arrives in Paris to prepare for her marriage to a silk manufacturer from Lyon, Daniel Rousseau. Flush with the romance and excitement of Paris, she ends up falling in love with the best friend of her husband-to-be, the fashion designer Philippe Clarence. An unremitting womanizer, Clarence seduces her into a tempestuous liaison doomed for failure.

During her vacation in Italy, a young and beautiful American tourist finds herself as a guest in a coastal villa, inhabited by a bunch of odd people.