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英国外交官彼得•琼斯（Anthony Higgins 饰）和妻子玛格丽特（Charlotte Rampling 夏洛特•莱普宁 饰）、儿子尼尔森（Christopher Hovik 饰）共同生活在驻巴黎的大使馆内。妻子频繁外出令彼得产生怀疑，他通过侦探得知玛格丽特在外面租住的公寓，并跟踪而去。却发现妻子和一只猩猩躺在一起。 彼得一度想杀掉这只名叫马克斯的猩猩，不过最终仍将它接到家中，只是马克斯和玛格丽特的暧昧关系始终令他不知所措…… 日本新浪潮导演大岛渚执导的外语片作品。Reserved and cool, Margaret is the French wife of Peter, a British diplomat posted to France with their son Nelson. She takes a lover, a chimpanzee she bought from a zoo and installed in a flat. Peter asks that she bring the chimp, Max, to live with them. He obsesses about Margaret and Max's relationship, hiring a prostitute so he can watch Max perform (Max declines) and peering through the keyhole as Margaret and Max sleep. He tries to kill Max, then finally accepts the ape's presence. When she is called away to her ill mother's bedside, Max stops eating. Worried, Peter takes Max and Nelson to the countryside so Max can be with Margaret; once there, Nature beckons. Is Max lost?