Based on a short story by Daphne du Maurier. Spending a holiday with her
family in a luxury hotel during a heat-wave, Marie finds life with her
conservative, passionless husband suffocatingly repressive. He is
unexpectedly called away on business and, inspired by hints dropped by
her easy-going friend Elise, Marie starts an affair with a handsome
young photographer, undeterred by the fact that he has a club-foot. The
brief infatuation brings tragedy and horror, leading to the
photographer's death, a threat of blackmail by his sister, also
club-footed, and finally an even more fearful dread, following an
innocent remark by Marie's husband, that such deformities are sometimes
inherited, latent in an unborn child.