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Set in a convent long ago, Isabella is sent there to punish her, as her choice of men did not pass muster. There, she is told she won't have to take the vows, as her lifestyle would desecrate the convent, and she wouldn't obey them anyway. Interestingly, one of the nuns has the mark on her arm of having received the smallpox vaccination. (Yes, the camera gets very close at times.) There is a statue in the garden, and the convent was built upon 'troubled' soil, evil deeds in its day. One day, in the garden, a man is found wounded. It is forbidden to have a man in the convent, but they are a very poor convent, and far from any village, so the Mother Superior allows the man to be treated, trusting the one nun to not ever be tempted. Isabella sees a chance to get the man to get word out that she is locked away at the convent. There is a lot of nudity, and a couple of scenes are very explicit. But the presence of the man turns a lot of the nuns into very randy women. Yes, there is a connection with the appearance of the man and the statue.

A young couple, just married, ignore the sign to not trespass. The moral of the film is obey the signs, but the movie has few morals. The main wardrobe item is a pair of daisy dukes, if they are even wearing anything. Even the guards are topless. If one took out scenes with nudity, there would only be a very short film left. The story is nothing new. The warden gets prisoners, and for this film, they all were apparently cast from a modeling agency, for a corrupt Governor, who naturally is married but impotent. He also likes to play a game, and it involves a naked woman trying to escape, and a rifle. It gets boring and predictable. But plenty of full frontal.

It has its moments, and the main reason to watch is the performance of Ray Nicholson as Paul, a psychopath, is in love with Sofia. The entire movie is a set up for the wedding of Paul and Sofia. Sofia is a star, who has personal security, but seems unable to make decisions when it counts, although she finally did get pushed over the edge and acted. I am not sure what the movie intended itself to be, and there were many directions the movie wandered off into. They brought in Penny, an equally psychotic person, but why? It could have been really good, but they pulled their punches and wandered around. Still it had its fun times.