Sexless marriage of convenience between homosexual man and unhappy woman. Husband is attracted to his straight male confidential secretary who is attracted to the wife's new maid. Wife cruises at night in town, picking up men. She then falls in love and has an affair with a man who works on the docks. Several scenes of implied heterosexual sex without explicit nudity.

Brother and sister have an adversarial but strange close relationship. Brother hints at some incestuous attraction.

When a cable snaps, a man is injured. A woman falls to her death.