Set in Paris, it tells the story of a wife who plots to get rid of a rich and errant husband but is herself the victim of her accomplices.

Closer to home, an attractive woman moves into the flat above them, and they sometimes hear an abusive lover rebuke and beat her.

Danielle begins to be haunted by guilt and, while she is on the phone with Nicole, Klaus creeps in and shoots her dead.

Following the release of Orgasmo, director Umberto Lenzi and actress Carroll Baker worked again on another giallo film.

[2] The script by Ernesto Gastaldi borrows plot elements from Henri-Georges Clouzot's film Les Diaboliques (1955) and like many gialli of the era, revels in its portrayal of badly-behaved, wealthy protagonists.