Set in beautiful French countryside where the story is recounted by its two ardent protagonists, Adèle, a young girl, writes from the point of view of seduced innocence, and Albertine, an older married woman, from the point of view of the experience which seduces her. The setting is an idyll, the couple far from idle as they explore all the possibilities of lesbian love and of their bodies, each in its different way as luscious and desirable as the other.