A gripping erotic drama written by Chabrol for his then wife Stephane Audran and for which she bagged Best Actress at the 1968 Berlin Film Festival. Frederique is a rich and beautiful woman, and predatory lesbian, who picks up a female street artist called "Why". It is December and they go to her villa in Saint Tropez, which is inhabited by a couple of odd gay men. Both women fall for the local architect Paul Thomas. However Why says that she is not interested in him, so Frederique invites him to move into the villa.