Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing lawyer who ridicules her in front of their children, criticizing everything she does or wears. She begins an affair with George Prager, a dashing, successful, and blatantly sadistic writer.

Carrie Snodgress
as Tina Balser

Richard Benjamin
as Jonathan Balser

Frank Langella
as George Prager

Lorraine Cullen
as Sylvie Balser

Frannie Michel
as Liz Balser

Lee Addoms
as Mrs. Prinz

Peter Dohanos
as Samuel Keefer

Katherine Meskill
as Charlotte Rady

Leonard Elliott
as M. Henri

Valma
as Margo