The attractive and rich Frédérique picks up the stray Why. An erotic liaison develops between the sophisticated Parisian and the street painter. However, at Frédérique's country estate in Saint-Tropez, Why becomes involved with the rich architect Paul, which causes the friendship between the two women to falter. Frédérique's jealousy leads to disaster... Claude Chabrol’s *Two Friends* (1968) is a sophisticated psychological drama about desire, jealousy, and power. With cool precision, Chabrol examines his characters’ emotional dependencies and possessive tendencies, exposing the human abysses lurking beneath the elegant surface of middle-class life. The film is considered one of the early highlights of his psychologically incisive auteur cinema.