Wealthy doctor Tom Cruise and bored wife Nicole Kidman would appear to be the perfect couple.

Once at a society party, however, he flirts happily with girls who throw themselves at him, while she gets drunk in minutes and is whirled round the dance floor by a Hungarian gigolo.

Back home, smoking pot, they are soon at each other's throats, she taunting him about the affair she could have had with a naval officer.

Haunted by this, Cruise, after dallying with a prostitute, finds himself, via a friend, masked and caped at an occult-style orgy in a vast country mansion. A nightmare scenario follows...

The story is not terribly interesting and could have certainly been told at half this length; the orgy scenes, though full of vigorously copulating couples, are pretty silly and the dialogue is often clumsy and its raw language constantly undercuts any poignancy the film might seem to be gathering.