after fifteen years of marriage to a nagging woman who despises everything about him graham hendrick files for divorce and marries ann, a beautiful former actress and seemingly the woman of his dreams. initially he believes this to be the start of the good life and congratulates himself daily, hourly but as he learns more about ann’s past he starts to obsess over the time before he knew her, resenting her previous love affairs, apparently unable to accept that she enjoyed a life at all before they met.