Drawn from the semi-autobiographical 1956 novel by Henry Miller, updated from the 1930s to the 1960s, it gives reflections on and incidents in the lives of two young men sharing an apartment.

[citation needed] The American writer Joey and his European friend Carl share an apartment in the Clichy-sous-Bois district of Paris in the late 1960s.

There Joey meets the exotic Mara, who claims to have had a brilliant career in Costa Rica but is temporarily reduced to prostituting herself on the Champs-Élysées.

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Though visually fluid and inventive, and capitalising on some attractive music from Country Joe Macdonald, Jens Jorgen Thorsen's version of Henry Miller's Paris-set autobiographical novel never does enough to alleviate the sheer repetitiveness of its source material.

As one scene of copulation succeeds another and the two heroes work their way through an inexhaustible supply of easy lays, it's hard to know who is more dehumanised by the whole procedure: the girls, reduced to grinningly acquiescent playthings; or the men, whom Paul Valjean (as the balding, bespectacled Miller counterpart) and Wayne John Rodda endow with little life beyond the unquenchable priapic glint in their eyes.