Ewa Aulin is a dainty waif with a penchant for drugs and sex, her husband (Jean Sorel) a talented architect but doesn't work on his craft nor try to better himself, he's a playboy with a high score, yet always somehow feels less, he's interested in hippie politics and communism but is afraid of it, he fancies himself a modern man, but falls deeper and deeper into conservatism due to his fear and misunderstanding.