Stephen is a professor at Oxford University who is caught in a rut and feels trapped by his life in both academia and marriage. One of his students, William, is engaged to the beautiful Anna, and Stephen becomes enamored of the younger woman. These three people become linked together by a horrible car crash, with flashbacks providing details into the lives of each person and their connection to the others in this brooding English drama.

• Royal Avenue Chelsea
• Dirk Bogarde
• Stanley Baker
• Jacqueline Sassard
• Michael York
• Vivien Merchant
• Delphine Seyrig
• Alexander Knox
• Ann Firbank