A woman stands in her bloomers in the bedroom with her husband on their wedding night. He unlaces the back and kisses her neck. Next scene, he is on top of her on a bed, thrusting, in nightshirt and nightgown, no nudity. When he's done, her face displays disappointment.

Doctor husband performs pelvic examination on wife and finds she is pregnant. No nudity.

Husband and wife lay in bed together. He strokes her pregnant belly and then runs his hand up to her breasts as he nuzzles and kisses her. She claimd she's tired and rolls over. No nudity.

Woman fantasizes she is laying naked under bedsheets next to a young man. As she turns to kiss him, she is woken from her dream by her husband entering the bedroom. No nudity seen.

Wearing only a nightgown damp with rain, woman leads her lover inside her house, pushes him down onto reclining chair and climbs astride him. He receives her and they copulate, thrusting, gasping. No nudity except clinging nightgown.

In her lover's bed, she sits smoking wearing his dressing gown as he lays shirtless nude under sheets with his head in her lap. He arises to pull on pants showing full rear nudity.

A single man kisses a married woman outside the carriage in which her husband sleeps. She suggests rendezvous the next day and he leaves. There, she agrees to take a carriage ride with him while her husband awaits her to leave Rouen. She is stripped to her bodice while he is buried in her neck. He undoes the front of her bodice and grabs her breast. They clasp each other panting. They emerge at dusk. Her husband is furious she is so late.

She ranges to trick her husband into weekly "piano lessons" but instead she meets her lover in Rouen. At their 1st meeting, it shows her in a girdle and slip while he unhooks her girdle, cups and kisses her breast.

Her lover sits shirtless on a bed. She is laying reclined onto him, dressed in a nightgown. She kisses him as they lay back. She slips underneath him, they continue kissing, panting. Another time, they lay in bed under sheets side by side, he topless, she in nightgown. Later at home, she lays on the floor of her bedroom in top and pantaloons, stroking her body imagining her kissing her lover.

She begs a loan from her merchant, but he asks for physical favors from her; she refuses. She then goes to her aristocrat former lover to beg but he is also broke. She embraces and kisses him, seeking physical solace but he gently refuses. Finally, she wheedles a key from a young clerk to unlock poison by using her feminine wiles.

People are seen drinking wine and other alcohol throughout the movie.

People smoke cigarettes and cigars.