在这部玩偶剧情片中,第二次世界大战的时候,1940年在一个法国南部小镇上发生的故事。艾丽安那是经营自己药店的一个大学教授的妻子，她抗拒不了来自在药店里打杂的很有心计的阿鲁曼的骚扰，结果一步步走向肉欲的深渊。无能的丈夫，无辜的女儿，失去理智的妻子，充满欲望和野心的阿鲁曼，在炮火纷飞的战争年代构成了一道奇异的风景。
On a 1940 France, just before the great invasion, Eliane is a pharmacist who is married to a dull professor, Henri and has a teenage daughter, Justine. She is an attractive woman but has let her passion fall dormant. One evening, the pharmacy clerk Armand makes a pass at her when he thinks she is Juliette, another employee. Soon she lets the passion overtake her and she begins an affair with him. But he soon starts making ever-growing demands to her, forcing her to have sex under the pharmacy counter and undress in front of a female employee of the pharmacy (who is also having an affair with him), among others demands, effectively turning her into his sex slave. When she finally let herself admit her submission to him, he demands her teenage daughter to prove she'd do anything for him.
