Ruth is an ex-ballet dancer, who, after health problems resulting from a botched abortion, was forced to give up her career. Now she drinks too much and prattles too much, getting on the nerves of her husband, Bertil, as the two of them travel back to Stockholm after a trip to Italy. Ruth's thoughts turn to her affair with Raoul, a scoundrel whose wife paid her a surprise visit one day. Bertil's thoughts turn to murder. Meanwhile, Viola, a widow and Birtil's ex-lover, resists seductions by two different persons - her psychiatrist and a lesbian friend who happens to be Ruth's former classmate.
—J. Spurlin