<p><span style="background-color: rgba(246, 242, 238, 1); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Elizabeth, a recent graduate, has an ill-fated love affair with a married Canadian diplomat in Bangkok. She returns to Montreal severely depressed, and resolves never to be taken advantage of again. She becomes a research assistant to a reclusive millionaire living in a mansion in Northern Quebec. She is subjected to a gauntlet of further ordeals. </span></p>