In the last of Rohmer's Six Moral Tales we focus on business executive Frederic, who leads a happily married life with wife Helene and enjoys his job as a partner in a small Paris office.
He spends his afternoons dreaming of other women, but that's all it ever is - dreaming.
Until one day, a mistress of an old friend begins dropping by his office.
They begin to meet quite irregularly during the afternoons, until she decides she wants to seduce him, which leaves Frederic with a serious moral dilemma...