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.
Jeanne Moreau
as Anna
Ian Bannen
as Alan
Vanessa Redgrave
as Sheila
Zia Mohyeddin
as Noori
Orson Welles
as Louis de Mozambique
Hugh Griffith
as Llewellyn
David Ross
as
John Hurt
as John
Umberto Orsini
as Postcard Vendor
Eleonora Brown
as Carla