From the moment the dress is designed with its bright floral pattern, it becomes imbued with a strange quality which produces the unexpected: scuffles at the executive's suite, commotion with an artist's studio, desire and lust turning to abuse and obsession, life colliding with death. The story weaves together the lives of a housewife, a maid, a school girl, a homeless woman, an elderly husband, a train conductor, an artist, a bus driver and a businessman in an intricate sequence of events which captures the startling effects 'the dress' has on those who come into contact with it.