When her fiancé returns from war service in 1945, artist Rebecca has a rude awakening and Oliver's old-fashioned expectations of a wife send her fleeing from his arms to forget him. On board ship she is seduced by a charming American journalist, and she sees this as the beginning of a new, sexually liberated life.

In New York Rebecca feels free to explore her newly-awakened passionate addiction, and with her refined English beauty and her appetite for erotic romance, she soon receives many intriguing invitations...