Hard-drinking playboy vintner Paul Wagner (Maurice Ronet) was being harangued by operations manager Christine Belling (Yvonne Furneaux) to cash out the business, and his only confidant was his best friend-and her ex-Christopher (Anthony Perkins). As his frequent blackouts now appear linked by circumstance to a string of violent murders, could the pressure be costing his sanity? Claude Chabrol's stylish thriller co-stars Stéphane Audran, Henry Jones. 98 min.