- The film is loosely based on the eassay The Death of the Author by Roland Barthes, in which he states that the author as an individual is inconsequential to the understanding of a work. "The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from innumerable centres of culture....a text's unity lies not in its origin, but in it…
- A dissolute rich society boy marries a worldly nightclub singer, and she begins to have a wholly unexpected effect on him.