Short stories dealing with extreme punishment towards promiscuous women. The first story takes place during the Meiji Period (1868-1912). A general comes home from war only to find his daughter having an affair with some young lad. She must be punished! So they stick some bamboo rod in her...
Ten schoolgirls have to remain in their classroom and wait for the policemen to arrive and interrogate them, since they all are suspects of something terrible that had just happened at school. As they wait, the memories and feelings of each girl are explored...
Lucas is a young man who lives with the religious aunt Lourdes in a quiet country town. He helps his aunt by holding religious meetings with the ladies of the area, in the living room, playing biblical songs on the keyboard. This quiet life will end as soon as the charitable aunt communicates the arrival of another nephew, Mario, just out of jail...
Amanda, a beautiful American girl is soon to be married to Andrea Orsomandi, a wealthy nobleman who lives in an extravagant Gothic mansion. However there exists something dark, sinister and supernatural within the walls of the mansion...
The late Horace T. Blue's palacial estate "Blue Heaven" has been bequeathed to a carnival stripper, much to the chagrin of Horace's great-niece, who schemes to disgrace her and keep the mansion for herself.
While looking for an apartment, Jeanne, a beautiful young Parisienne, encounters Paul, a mysterious American expatriate mourning his wife's recent suicide. Instantly drawn to each other, they have a stormy, passionate affair, in which they do not reveal their names to each other...
Yu-jin hears that her twin sister Seung-jin will be coming to town from the US. In the end only her brother-in-law arrives bearing horrible news of her sister's suicide. When her brother-in-law tries to seduce her, she feels a strange physical familiarity to him. Yu-jin meets a stranger online who calls himself art lover...
To pay off her father's debts, Marie de Heredia marries the poet Henri de Regnier, but it is Pierre Louÿs whom she loves, a poet who is also an erotomaniac and a great traveler. It is with him that she will live an initiation to love and eroticism through the photographic and literary link that they invent together.