The eccentric son of a wealthy family is drawn "like a moth to a flame" by the mysterious headless woman at a traveling carnival in this erotically charged drama. Surrounded by side show snake charmers, hard-boiled roughnecks, and an eight-year-old fortune teller wise beyond her years, Frank, a young man with a death wish, and Net, the "headless" woman who has turned her back on life, face the mysteries of their pasts and struggle toward personal redemption.