The librarian of the university Xenia schedules a S&M blind date with the masochist Ghost to satisfy her fantasies and sexual desires. They spend the night in his apartment having kinky sex and on the next morning Ghost is dead with slashed throat. Xenia cleans her evidences and leaves the place, but Ghost's friend Silver investigates the murder of Ghost and finds her files in a CD.
A young woman (Tanya Allen) relay races across Canada with her boyfriend (Breckin Meyer) and another couple (Jake Busey and Denise Richards) to bail her brother out of a marijuana charge.
El Marqués de Sade (Klaus Kinski) escribe en la cárcel la historia de Justine (Romina Power) y Juliette (Maria Rohm), dos hermanas adineradas que se quedan solas e indefensas cuando su padre es forzado a abandonar el país, y su madre muere. Juliette acaba como prostituta, mientras Justine busca abrirse camino en un mundo cruel en el cual todo tipo de locos y pervertidos intentan utilizarla y abusar de ella.
