The Cordier fight in family against the crime: the father is police captain, the son, investigating judge and the girl, a journalist.

Based on the short story by Jorge Luis Borges, the tale recounts how its eponymous heroine avenges the death of her father.

Marie lives with Antoine, but while he is away she meets Paul, a filmmaker visiting from Canada. Paul is instantly smitten and wants her to marry him. She puts him off by saying that she and Antoine have decided to have a baby. When Antoine returns, he becomes vividly jealous of his girlfriend's chaste encounter, which provokes her into having an affair with Paul.

Expatriate Henry Miller indulges in a variety of sexual escapades while struggling to establish himself as a serious writer in Paris.

A valet wants to marry his beloved who tries to seduce Count Almaviva, his master.