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