In suburban Montreal, housewives Fernande and Violette become increasingly bored and irritated when their husbands prove to be perennially absent and absorbed in other interests. After reading a book on sexual liberation, they decide to seduce men who deliver or work in the neighbourhood, including the milkman, a carpet cleaner and a municipal worker. After one of the men dies following the lovemaking, a comic investigation and trial ensues. The women are acquitted and become celebrities when a Broadway producer turns their lives into a musical.