When Christabel, a fine-art photographer irresistibly drawn to affairs and psychic phenomena, is persuaded by her husband to take a country holiday, she foresees long days of pastoral boredom. But Nicholas, her deviously sensual husband, has a hand in the unexpected events which occur within their old mansion. Christabel is pulled into a web of eroticism involving the enigmatic Jamie, her husband's young male PA. As summer passes, even darker liaisons unfold.