The setting is Vienna. A young American woman is brought to a hospital after overdosing on pills, apparently in a suicide attempt. A police detective suspects foul play on the part of her lover, an American psychology professor. As doctor try to save her life, the detective interrogates the professor, and through flashbacks we see the events leading up to the woman's overdose; her stormy and intenely sexual relationhip with the professor, her heavy drinking and numerous affair, and her estrangement from her Czech husband. A darkly erotic study of several rather unympathetic character.

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