在维也纳,一个年轻的美国女人自杀未遂,被送入医院。警探怀疑这场意外是由于她的情人——一名美国心理学教授——的不当行为而导致的。在医生努力抢救的同时,警探审问了这名教授。通过闪回画面,这个美国女人过量服药、她和教授狂乱的亲密关系、她的酗酒和风流史、她和她丈夫的疏离等等往事才渐渐浮现出来。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 doctors 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 intensely sexual relationship with the professor, her heavy drinking and numerous affairs, and her estrangement from her Czech husband. A darkly erotic study of several rather unsympathetic characters.