Sylvia Kristel became an international star as a result of this French screen adaption of Emmanuelle Argan's controversial book about the initiation of a diplomat's young wife into the world of sensuality. As the pretty wife of a French ambassador in Bangkok, Emmanuelle discovers a burning sexual passion she has previously repressed. Under the tutelage of the wise, old Mario, and with her husband's complicity. Emmanuelle discovers the joys of eroticism and lets herself slide into pleasure