Anyway, this film centers on Cecilia, played by the stunning red-head Muriel Montosset. After a whirlwind romance that led to her marriage to the aristocratic Andre, she feels that she's lost the passionate spark that made her fall in love with him. So she provokes her servants with strip-teases and wandering about in the nude, until one day they decide to ravish her.

She cries out in shock at first, but it turns out she's not entirely an unwilling victim. The carnal excitement from the experience seems to have re-awakened her passionate nature, and she convinces her husband that perhaps genuine love can be sustained alonside sexual adventuring, and taking lovers on the side could strengthen their own bond.

It sounds too good to be true, and Andre relents. What follows are a series of affairs and sexual escapades, but Cecilia remains frustrated and unhappy.

There is also a bizarre orgy in the middle of the movie, which in the interview included on the disk the director explains was a parody of the "LSD scene." He mentioned that drug parties were all the rage back in the 1970s, but he felt bored by them and horrified how hard drugs ruined people, and that psychedelic drugs seemed to him a cop-out to true imagination.

In sum, all these attempts to indulge the senses do not satisfy the emptiness within one's mind.

Cecilia apparently realizes this futility after the one lover she feels close to vows to leave her forever to end his torment, and her increasingly provocative behavior leads to a truly violent rape such that her husband temporarily leaves her in disgust.

Threatened to lose it all, by the end of the movie she runs back into the arms of her forgiving husband, presumably for good.

Overall the movie has some genuinely erotic moments, but feels very long that it drags in various places, especially the orgy scene. The director also mentioned it was shot on the former estate of Captain Cook outside of Sintra, Portugal a gift to him by that country's royal family in honor of his discoveries. He turned it into a botantical garden filled by exotic overseas plants, and Franco makes effective use of his sceneary. The scenery is indeed stunning, and this lush foliage suggests a state of primal savagery, of nature unbound, so it emphasizes Cecilia's sexual desire quite well.

If you are not offended by a somewhat artsy, soft-core flick of the likes that aren't going to be made by mainstream Hollywood any time soon, this may be worth getting for you. For me, it was not bad, but I would have been content to have found it for rental somewhere and watched it once, rather than committing to purchase it unseen.