The by no means attractive amatory pursuits of Zoe Robinson as she loses her first husband, replaces him with much older Mr. Robinson, satisfies her restlessness as the benefactress-mistress of an eighteen year old local boy, Arthur. Finding it a little difficult to keep both her men aligned, Zoe gets in way over her head as Arthur is convicted of her husband's murder, and Zoe makes her amends through suicide... A deliberate, sometimes derisive portrait of a ludicrously loving woman and the unintentional impetus to crime she created.