Art Garfunkel plays a moody American psychoanalyst whose mounting obsession with a beautiful fun-loving young girl drives her to the brink of death on a drug overdose. As he waits anxiously at the hospital and tries to answer police questions, he recalls the details of the complex and tempestuous affair: their meeting, their discovery of physical joy marred by mental anguish, their constant separations and reconciliations.

Yet is he telling the police the whole truth?