Uma jovem escritora decide escrever seu novo livro baseado na mais antiga profissão do mundo: a prostituição. Para isso, entrevista várias prostitutas, garotas de programa, prostitutas de rua e até gigolôs homens e mulheres. Enquanto ela está fora, sua vizinha Rebecca (Denise Richards), uma estudante de antropologia, é introduzida na profissão por outra vizinha, também garota de programa, Adrianna (Daryl Hannah) que a encaminha ao seu melhor cliente, Pierre (Joaquim de Almeida).
July 21, 1958. Madrid wakes up to the news that a pawnbroker has been murdered in his shop. Soon, police finds that the victim's associate, his pregnant wife and their maid have been murdered as well in their own home across the street.
Daniel, a writer seeking seclusion to work on his new book, finds himself stranded at a rural bed and breakfast run by a strange and prudish young woman and her ailing, wheelchair-bound husband who remains shut in his room all day. As night falls, a psychotic, razor-wielding killer begins stalking the bed and breakfast, brutally slashing the throats of its most sex-crazed guests, whose bodies and luggage then mysteriously disappear the following morning...