Paris, early 1900's. Provoking a cataclysmic crisis in her conventional, bourgeois marriage, Mrs. Hervey and her husband each take on the supposed virtues of the opposite sex. Mr. Hervey loses everything in a fatal blow from the one place he would never have imagined: his wife, his wife who is no longer his wife. She, GABRIELLE, emerges as untouched and intact as a block of granite. Stripped of his manhood, Mr. Hervey, now left with nothing, will fall apart and disappear.