This is a story about a bachelor Italian-born psychiatrist, now an American citizen residing in Manhattan who meets a highly attractive woman who is confused about her sexuality and is seriously contemplating suicide. Against his better judgment, he decides to take her on as his patient. Then there are the other two women-one whom the patient passionately loves and is the reason why she is contemplating suicide. As a therapeutic approach, the doctor decides to meet with both of them in his hotel suite. Then there is the third woman, a female psychiatrist who loves and tries to protect him against the other two women who both have designs on him. The story takes place during a month with the brief periodic use of drugs taken in their sexplorations.