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…

新查泰莱夫人 Cynthia，感到自己被丈夫忽视。在他外出时，便想找她的园丁 Thomas 取乐，但总是被新的来访者打断。她其中一个来客是一位教授，希望来她的地里做研究。他心情很低落，不过 Cynthia 知道如何让他愉快起来........