A Dutch painter living in London finds himself wrongly accused of murdering his girlfriend, and sets out to hunt down the real killer. Mystery thriller, starring Hardy Kruger, Stanley Baker, Micheline Presle and Gordon Jackson.

Painter Jan Van Rooyer has been art teacher to Jacqueline Cousteau, an older Frenchwoman who becomes his lover. But when she turns up dead, Van Rooyer must explain their relationship to the police to clear his name.