The story of Amour de Femme revolves around Jeanne, 35, a successful osteopath in Paris, who offers healing to others through massage and touch. Married, with a son of seven years, Jeanne expertly and willingly goes through the motions of a happy marriage, though her faraway manner belies this suggestion of satisfaction. Attending a party with her husband, she meets a professional dancer named Marie, with whom she forms an immediate bond. Recalling times when she herself used to dance, Jeanne resolves to take lessons from Marie.

Through dance, she begins to reacquaint herself with her own body and with the expression of inner passion, which has been lacking in her marriage. When Marie reveals her sexual attraction to Jeanne, almost immediately Jeanne realizes that she feels the same way. Then, it's only a brief matter of time before she falls in love shocking a close friend in whom she confides, angering her husband as his suspicions of an affair grow stronger, and overwhelming Jeanne herself with waves of passion that lift her ever higher... and carry her farther and farther away from the life she has known.