Even though she has a loving husband and several lovers, Marian was so traumatized by the events of her late childhood that she is unable to relax and enjoy being loved. Her difficulties began when, shortly after her beloved father's death, she caught her mother in bed with the family doctor. Nearly everything she sees in this film seems to remind her of that incident, or of her relationship with her father. Nonetheless, when she finally meets someone whose appearance recapitulates that of her father, she begins to thaw out. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi