Claire is a chic young Parisian woman married to a somewhat older husband, Jean As the story opens, she leaves her husband playing baroque music at the piano, telling him she is off to see her sister, Solange. In reality she meets her lover, Claude at his apartment; After some idle chatter and love-making he tells her a story of the shriveled heads that the Jivaro Indians used to give their lovers as tokens of affection but, as she shivers in disgust, he gives her a mink instead. How will they hide it from her husband?
Virginie Vitry
as Claire
Anne Doat
as Solange
Jean-Claude Brialy
as Claude
Jacques Doniol-Valcroze
as Jean
François Truffaut
as Party guest (uncredited)
Jean-Luc Godard
as Party guest (uncredited)
Robert Lachenay
as Party guest (uncredited)
Claude Chabrol
as Party guest (uncredited)
Jacques Rivette
as Narrator (uncredited)
