The macabre ale, that became increasingly unpleasant to watch, was about the mental deterioration into schizophrenia of beautiful, timid, vulnerable and paranoid young 18 year-old blonde manicurist Carol Ledoux (21 year-old Catherine Deneuve) from Belgium, who lived in a claustrophic London apartment with her older sister.He had spelled out on a rock wall:APE NOT KILL APE.Caesar was summoned to his covered home shelter where his sickly chimp wife Cornelia (Judy Greer) had just given birth to another son (later named Cornelius).Life in the town, a man's world, is strained and grim for Linda (Meryl Streep in her second film performance), the main female character in the film, and the fourth bridesmaid.Tracy sets exceptionally high standards for herself, that's all.And other people aren't always quite apt to live up to them.Dinah: But don't you think it's stinking not at least to want father?Margaret: Yes, darling.Between ourselves, I think it's good and stinking.In the next scene, a black limousine drives into the stable area of the Lord estate carrying Dinah and Tracy in the back seat.She intensely stared at him, then apologized for awkwardly becoming fixated on him, and added that he closely resembled her late father - undoubtedly revealing her own Electra complex (the female version of the male Oedipus complex - a desire o possessively love her father):You look so much like my father.