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.4 women 3 men 2 girls