The front cover has a red stripe across the top that says "Banned From Cable Broadcast". Important information.

I'll try to be as brief as possible with the plot because some may want to actually watch the whole movie. What we have here is a fantastical island inhabited by prostitutes, their madams and a midget pimp with a nose half eaten by syphilis. Billy Drago, after a boat-ride in which the boat encounters a naked dead pregnant woman in the river, arrives looking for a certain prostitute, his long-lost love, Kimomo. The midget pimp tells Billy that Kimomo doesn't live on the island. Billy goes with another whore, one with a deformed face, who tells him a "bedtime story" about her life and consequently about the death of Billy's lost love.

Billy Drago tries to show some emotion at several points in the movie. I say try, because he's one of the worst actors in the world. Think Jack Palance, without the camp and inherent "class". Every time Billy opened his mouth, I laughed at him. It's easier to think of him as the comic relief. (Sorry Billy, it had to be said).

The deformed prostitute's story involves lots of images of aborted fetuses, so the more sensitive (such as myself) may want to cover their eyes at these moments. The cue to shut your eyes is whenever someone is holding a bucket. Or has their arm between a woman's legs. If that's your thing, you're gonna love these parts.

The end of said prostitute's story is how Kimomo dies. I'm going to spoil this scene for you in detail. Kimomo is falsely accused of stealing the Madam's jade ring, and strung up AOH. A mean older whore with a grudge against Kimomo walks over and menaces her. First she grabs two sticks of lit incense and burns Kimomo's underarm. Kimomo screams. The mean whore smiles and then flourishes two huge bundles of lit incense, one in either hand. Kimomo knows she's in for it. The mean whore sticks the incense into Kimomo's underarms with relish. Kimomo screams again, only louder and more. There is a nice close-up where we see the incense burning Kimomo's underarm, along with her sparse underarm hair dyed bright red. Apparently that's the fashion in creepy-whore-town.

Then Kimomo appears in a 3/4 hogtie. One leg is held aloft by a rope attached to a wooden pulley. The mean whore sticks long needles with tassels on the ends under the fingernails of Kimomo's right hand. The sound effects at this point are pretty gruesome. Accompanied by the close-up of the needles penetrating the nail bed. Intercut with the obvious relish of the mean whore.

The mean whore flips Kimomo over and sticks more long needles into Kimomo's gums, upper and lower jaw. Same nice sound effects here. That accomplished, they yank on the rope and up goes Kimomo so that she is now suspended by one leg and bristling with needles. Kimomo then pees herself and her urine trickles down over her torso and face as everyone watches in delight.

It should be mentioned that the nudity in this scene is a bit back and forth, now you see breasts, now you don't.

Later on we see Kimomo (naked from the waist up, yeah!) suffering on the floor, still bristling with needles. In one version of the deformed whore's story, she discovers Kimomo hanging by the neck from suicide. In the next version of the story, the whore gives Kimomo water by spitting it into her mouth, and then strangles her with rope. Yep, she's super nice.

I'm not going to go into the deformed whore's "sister". You'll just have to discover that nonsensical part for yourselves.