Anita, an early-developing teenager, is struggling emotionally. Her relationships with her parents and friends are very poor and the people around her regard her with contempt--even the men who so ruthlessly use her. She meets young psychology student Erik, who gently, carefully, begins to dispel her psychological blocks. In the course of this treatment, she reveals to him some of the shocking events of her life. Erik believes that he has the solution to Anita's problems: to move her into the artists' commune of which he is a member. The common interest of this collective is largely the performing of classical music, but some of the other girls regard Anita's presence in the collective as highly provocative. Anita's nymphomania is her means of protest against her parents, school, society, and her own environment (her whole life situation). Therefore, Erik tries to get her to see clearly, with some insight, the breadth of her psychological situation. Against the background of the intensive battle that Anita carries on with the self-destructive drives within her, grows the depth of feeling that bind her and Erik together. She is no longer simply a "case" for him. Anita discovers that Erik could be "the one" for her, forever.