Following the twin trails of desire and depravity to a shocking sadistic paradise - a garden in China where torture is practiced as an art form - a dissolute Frenchman discovers the true depths of degradation beyond his prior bourgeois imaginings. Entranced by a resolute Englishwoman whose capacity for debauchery knows no bounds he capitulates to her every whim amid an ecstatic yet tormenting incursion of visions scents caresses pleasures horrors and fantastic atrocities.