The traumas of an abusive rural childhood drag Valerie, an attractive young woman (superbly played by Annette Haven), into a state of disarray in her relationships with others. As an adult, she senses this psychopathic behavior, even with her husband, and randomly leaves home at night to wander around San Francisco's clubs in search of easy sex, sordidness, and exhibitionism, even becoming a street prostitute out of pure vice rather than economic necessity.
The pseudonym Robert McCallum covered the late director and photography genius Gary Graver in this adult film (one of the best films of the "porno chic" era) based on a true story, but which any film-savvy viewer would recognize as Luis Buñuel's "Belle de Jour" its true inspiration. It's a dramatic and thoughtful sex film where the goddess of the genre, Annette Haven, shines brightly in one of her finest works. Graver handles an intelligent script with commendable delicacy. The sex scenes are invariably raw and intense, and the sublime and very feminine Haven appears very relaxed, even in the marital rape sequence with John Leslie. Kay Parker makes her sexless debut as the madam of a brothel.