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arrive to arrest Peter - revealing that Peter had arranged a plot to murder his wife and cash in a large insurance policy that he took out for her life. Peter has employed the blackmailer (whom he met by chance on a trip to
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Peter privately contacts a police inspector that he knows, to investigate what has been happening to Minou. When Minou leads the police to the blackmailer's studio, it has been emptied of all belongings; also the photograph has disappeared and
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Minou refuses to believe this, until she finds out that a man who has made a big loan to Peter's company, has now been found suddenly dead. She receives a telephone call from her attacker, who plays a tape recording that seems to be Peter participating in a murder. The attacker tells Minou that he
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Minou (Lassander) is the wife of Peter (Pier), a financially-struggling businessman. She becomes the target of a menacing stranger who convinces Minou that her husband has murdered a business partner; unless she submits to a sadistic relationship with the stranger he will expose the husband to the
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will go public with this evidence if she does not come to his studio; at the studio she offers him money but he rejects that and demands that she participates with him in sadistic sex. This is captured on a hidden camera, thus giving him new material to continue blackmailing her.
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