Florence Anderson (Deborah Kerr), the long-suffering wife of advertising executive Eddie (Kirk Douglas), struggles to understand her husband's affair with Gwen (Faye Dunaway). Eddie goes East to tend to his ailing father Sam (Richard Boone), telling his wife he is done with his affair with Gwen. In an awkward scene, both women attend the funeral of Eddie's father. Arthur (Hume Cronyn) is the family attorney who must untangle the legal mess in the wake of Sam's death. There are some light comedy interludes in this uneven drama taken from director Elia Kazan's 1967 novel. Nudity and four-letter words are plentiful.