Beginning with a pivotal encounter between two men in Goiás in the 1980s, director Daniel Nolasco weaves a narrative that spans across time and, perhaps, multiple dimensions, driven by the intense forces of desire and love, as well as the suffocating weight of repression and silence. Nolasco, who was featured in Olhar’s Focus section during the pandemic, continues his distinctive and undefinable journey with a radically queer cinema that refuses to look away from the often paradoxical physical expressions of both desire and violence.

故事以19世紀的開曼群島為背景，索爾達娜飾演居住在加勒比海地區的埃克塞爾，這是一個非常強勢的女性角色，當她的島嶼被兇殘的海盜入侵時，她過去的秘密將被揭開。

　　生物學教授詹尼西爾（Pierre Brasseur 飾）因一次車禍使心愛的女兒克莉絲汀（Edith Scob 飾）面容盡毀，女兒傷愈后只能終日戴著瘆人的白色面具，痛苦非常。愛女心切且心懷內疚的詹尼西爾與助手路易絲（Alida Valli 阿莉達?瓦莉 飾）偽裝克莉絲汀失蹤、死亡的假象，暗中誘拐與女兒年齡相仿的女性，將其麻醉后剝掉面皮，移植到克莉絲汀臉上。　　但手術接連失敗，犧牲者也不斷增加。親眼所見諸多同齡女孩慘遭殺害，克莉絲汀心中痛苦不已。另一方面，眾多女孩失蹤的案件也引起了警方的注意，他們逐漸將目標鎖在瘋狂的詹尼西爾身上……