Marilyn Jordan is a bored, depressed American housewife, married to a rich Swedish businessman with two seemingly perfect children.

One day, Marilyn decides to accompany her husband on a business trip, but she gets detained by airport security on a technicality.

Marilyn indulges in their fantastic, surreal world of shovel fighting, lamb roasting, striptease and free love.

Once back home, Marilyn serves her family a sumptuous gourmet dinner, followed by a light dessert of fruit – which a caption announces is poisoned.

[3] Vincent Canby of The New York Times gave it a negative review, and called it "A halfheartedly Surreal comedy filled with forced high spirits, unconvincing lunacies and failed sight gags.