“Okada’s death completely fits into Sato’s version of Japan, alienated and constantly watched. Women, especially, are followed with camcorders, viewed by security cameras, denied privacy. They float, friendless and unattached, in and out of phone booths, sex clubs, medical research, subways, neon cities.”
和世界上大多數夫妻一樣,瑪爾塔(安娜·金斯卡婭 Anna Jimskaia 飾)和丈夫達裡奧(馬克思·帕羅蒂 Max Parodi 飾)過著簡單而平靜的生活,可是,從某些角度看來,平靜等同於乏味,而這乏味讓瑪爾塔的心中時常燃燒著慾望的火焰。隨著火焰越燒越烈,瑪爾塔的痛苦也隨之增加。漸漸的,瑪爾塔的精神世界開始失控,她與每一個看得上眼的男人們共享著魚水之歡,在夢境裡,在幻想中,而每當此時,達裡奧總會身著風衣手持槍械打破瑪爾塔的幻想。隨著時間的推移,瑪爾塔逐漸的迷失在了現實和幻想的交界線上,她終於背叛了自己的丈夫,有了一個年輕的情人。幾經思量,瑪爾塔決定和情人私奔,可是在丈夫熟悉的身影前,她又陷入了猶豫之中。