Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound, and is an interpretation of the particular aria.
A young and affluent couple become fatally entangled in their own wish-fulfillment world.
Brothers rob a bank and take a young woman hostage. They learn that she’s a nudist, so they force her to take them to a nudist camp where they can hide out.
Three young people are framed, arrested and thrown in prison by corrupt Southern police.
Married nudists Anne and Tom work in real estate but Tom is fired for his lifestyle. Unfortunately, as he was ready to close a big major deal, Tom goes to his favorite nudist camp to take his mind off his problems and discovers that the client is also a member. Together, they scheme to get Anne and their boss to visit in order to make the deal.
Inmates fight, pair off, try suicide and attempt escape at a British reform school for girls.
A psychiatrist gets involved with his best friend’s wife who may be a murderer.
A beautiful Italian woman is told by her black friend about the Carribean love god Jambaya who appears in the form of the snake. By the end of the movie, Cassini has decided to give herself to Jambaya while Cunningham departs with her white friend’s ex-lover, establishing a neat symmetry between their respective fantasies of exoticism.
