An English novelist is lured, with disconcerting and disorienting results, into purchasing a crumbling mansion by what he imagines are the deliberately "literary" ploys of its housekeeper and two mysterious, lurking women.

Leslie Caron
as Céleste

Bulle Ogier
as Ariane

Marie-France Pisier
as Agathe

Corin Redgrave
as Eric Sange

Marilyn Jones
as Berthe

Pierre Baudry
as Bar Owner