[1] It follows an attractive young woman living with an avant-garde artist who falls disastrously for the voyeuristic owner of the gallery that shows her husband's work.

Stanislas, a wealthy unmarried owner of an art gallery in Paris, is friend and patron to Gilbert, a creator of progressive artworks, who lives in a little suburban flat with José, a television editor.

Though she is shocked and leaves, the allure of Stanislas and of his pornographic image works in her mind until one day she asks him if she can sit in on a photo session.

Finding herself increasingly excited by the rising erotic tension of the shoot and by the sexiness of the pretty young model, José angers Stanislas by leaving in confusion.

Both Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup (1966) and Michael Powell's Peeping Tom (1960) explored the dark links between men who make erotic images of women, films about such men and their models, and the viewers of such films, while Luis Buñuel's Belle de Jour (1967) acted out the sadomasochistic fantasies of a beautiful middle-class woman.