Jean-Pierre Kremer

In Paris, unhappy movie actress Catherine Crachat becomes infatuated with the mathematician Pierre Indemini, but then breaks up with him. After a film shoot in Vienna, Catherine stays with a rich admirer, Fanny Hohenstein. Fanny has a history of many lovers of both sexes, two of whom killed themselves over her.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, two friends, one a homosexual and the other a writer, fall in love with a young divorced woman.