A female traveling companion seduces a married man and his alcoholic wife.

Melina Mercouri plays Maya, a jet-setting Greek actress who returns to her homeland to undertake the role of Medea. Searching for inspiration and clues as to how a mother could kill the children she loves, Maya discovers Brenda (Ellen Burstyn), a bible-spouting American woman serving time in an Athens prison for that very crime.

An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the local prostitute with whom he is infatuated.