The adventures of promiscous maid.

A married Parisian couple whose sex life has lost a little bit of its spark reveal their respective dissatisfaction to a friend, and both receive the same advice: put an ad into a swingers magazine.

While shooting an advertising film in Spain, Jean, the director, meets Ines, a passionate Spanish woman who becomes his companion and lover. On the same night of his arrival in San Sebastian, the director is visited by a woman who, recommending herself to him, ends up in his arms.

While on the set of her latest film, famous movie actress Silvie Deschamps discovers that the film's producers are planning to turn the picture into a hardcore porn film. When she refuses to go along with their scheme, they produce some very "intimate" photographs of her sister Jenny and say they'll release the photos if Silvie doesn't comply.

Finch, a photographer, doesn't really make a living from his business. One day, he meets his old classmate Mario, who works for a Senator whose daughter he married, Cléo. But Mario is no longer interested in his wife and he has a secret affair with her younger sister Ariane. Finch takes some pictures and he hopes to blackmail him in order to get money from the Senator. Mario asks Ariane for help. Finch makes Ariane pay, who learns the truth of the situation. To punish Mario, Ariane asks him to teach sexual practices to her friend Julie. The maid also begins to blackmail her boss, Mario. Cléo guesses the truth and asks her husband to fulfill his marital duty. Cornered by the four women, Mario gives up everything. The Senator is re-elected and his daughter congratulates him as she pushes her submissive husband in a wheelchair.

In an alternate reality, Brigitte Lahaie has died of AIDS on December 31, 1982. She's the only woman Richard, our narrator, has ever loved, and after hearing an address from President François Mitterrand, Richard decides to tell their story. Comprised of soft excerpts from about 30 1970s X-rated films, this fiction traces the story of an enchanted interlude from the pill to the appearance of AIDS and reflects on the cultural changes of the era.