The Diversead an idyllicife on the French Riviera. Their parties are the talk of the town, and everyone is much taken by their grace and sophistication. Their romance, too, is the stuff of fairytale: Dick Diver, a brilliant, charming clinical psychologist, is madly inove with Nicole, the bewitching, wealthy heiress who was once his patient. Behind the glamorous facade, though, trouble brews.