The marriage encounter provides a focus on the reconciliation of the three couples' problems, but the real story is how they meet, get married, have children and get into trouble, not necessarily in that order. It is meant to be a treatise on sex and marriage with emphasis on the emotional and psychological aspects of relationships, not necessarily the physical. Nonetheless, there are lots of incidences of nudity and plenty of sexual situations but no violence or bad language, just a wild romp through the crazy vicissitudes of wedded strife, or as it is sometimes referred to in France: comédie romantique.