Alan, after quarreling with his girlfriend Sheila, becomes intrigued by Anna, a mysterious widow who's searching for a sailor she had known many years before. Alan and Anna begin the search on board a yacht bound for Greece, but they don't find the sailor. After a stop in Africa, Louis de Mozambique joins the party and suggests that the sailor may never have existed other than in Anna's mind.
| Directing | Tony Richardson | Director |
| Writing | Marguerite Duras | Writer |
| Writing | Christopher Isherwood | Writer |
| Writing | Tony Richardson | Writer |
| Writing | Don Magner | Writer |
| Sound | Antoine Duhamel | Original Music Composer |
| Crew | Raoul Coutard | Cinematography |