The 18th-century French marquis recalls his sadomasochistic experiments and goes to jail for lewd behavior.

In the “Swinging Munich” of the late 1960s: The young millionaire daughter Carroll Buchheim, an American, flew from the United States to Germany to visit her brother, who is missing.

Aristocrat Julian Markham keeps his disfigured brother, Sir Edward, locked in a tower of his house. Occasionaly Sir Edward escapes and causes havoc around the town.