polanski and his house writer brach bring you the story of a couple ( grant and thomas ) that be celebrate their anniversary on a cruise to turkey . on the boat they meet a beautiful woman ( grant character immediately fall for her ) and her crippled husband oscar . the husband ( coyote ) offer nigel the chance to sleep with his wife mimi ( seigner ) but first he must listen to his entire story regard his relationship with mimi . the big part of the movie be one big flash back be you get to see how oscar ( an unsuccessful writer ) meet mimi ( a waitress or dancer ) one day in paris . they immediately fall for each other and they develop a very passionate but perverse sexual relationship . when oscar realize after a while that their relationship have reach the point of no return he try to break it up . mimi be obsess with oscar and she doesn not want to leave him . oscar endure her presence but he make her life so miserable ( humiliaton and beating and . ) in the hope that she will leave him . when this doesn not work he trick her into get on a plain and send her of to another destination . he continue his sweet bachelor life in paris until one day he get hit by a car . none of his one night stand come to visit him in the hospital and one day mimi walk in . he immediately realize that she be the only one that can help him and now she in control . polanski and brach once again bring you an excellent thriller .