Zee Blakeley (Elizabeth Taylor) and her husband Robert (Michael Caine) are playing table tennis over the opening credits and making exaggerated facial expressions of joy, which should be a warning right off the bat that the movie is a disaster waiting to happen. It turns out that the Blakeley's marriage ought to be ending in divorce, so Robert decides to have an affair with a widow he met at a party, Stella (Susannah York).
Zee finds out, and doesn't like it, so she decides to be catty in a whole bunch of ways, including attempting suicide and really coming between Robert and Stella. All the while the characters partake in fabulously tacky 70s style and (for the women) hairdos while delivering tawdry one-liners. Margaret Leighton, however, tops Taylor and York in the bad hair department
Zee finds out, and doesn't like it, so she decides to be catty in a whole bunch of ways, including attempting suicide and really coming between Robert and Stella. All the while the characters partake in fabulously tacky 70s style and (for the women) hairdos while delivering tawdry one-liners. Margaret Leighton, however, tops Taylor and York in the bad hair department