The film involves a portraitist named Frederick Lansac (Philippe Lemaire) wanting to restore his wife Anne's (Anny Duperey) face to its former beauty after it was disfigured in an accident.

Lansac tries to force a surgeon named Rohmer (Howard Vernon) to perform a transplant on her.

Anne isolates herself in her home where she slowly becomes less mentally stable as well as having erotic dreams about her nurse Agnès.

Lansac blackmails Rohmer into performing a grafting surgery on his wife to restore her former beauty.

Lansac tricks two of his female clients to his home to become the donors for his wife's new face but the two die in the process.