Plot Summary

Daniel and his girlfriend Bridget are famous Australian dancers. During a rehearsal Bridget asks Daniel to go out and buy her a packet of cigarettes. He walks past a street performing clown on the way to the shops. 3 hooded figures come towards him in an alleyway, and he looks curious, but not frightened. Perhaps the street performer in the previous scene established the fact that seeing odd things in public is not always something to be afraid of. The hooded figures stab Daniel with a needle that knocks him unconscious.

When he wakes up he is chained to the floor of a large empty room by his arms and legs. The three hooded figures turn out to be three women. They force him to partake in sexual acts with them, but they keep their faces hidden. Daniel notices little things about the girls that he can identify them by. One of them has red hair and he can identify her face by feeling it with his hand, one of them has a large birthmark on her buttocks, and one of them has a butterfly tattoo on her groin. They pierce his penis and attach it to a chain, claiming that they are making him theirs. Their final wish is to make him perform a dance for them.

After 12 days they throw him out of a van into an open space in an industrial area, with a hood over his face. He comes home to Bridget with cigarettes. He finds it hard to tell her what has happened to him. When he does finally try to report what happened to the police they laugh at the situation, as if a man being held captive by three women is a joke.

Daniel moves away and gets a job in a pub. Three girls come and buy drinks from him. They look as if they may be his three captors. He goes home with them and checks them for the identifying features of the three hooded women. When he finds none of them he leaves. He gets his penis piercing checked by a doctor and notices a needle in the doctor's office. He asks the doctor if you would have to know what you were doing to administer sedatives with a needle. The doctor tells him that if you administered the wrong dosage you could kill someone, so you would have to be a nurse to administer something like that. This sends Daniel on a search for the three women among nurses. He sees a nurse with red hair and chases her, but does not find her. He has sex with many women, always looking for his captors.

Daniel's dance instructor and friend Margot is sick with cancer. Daniel sends her a postcard to let her know he is alright. She misses him and is worried about him. She asks her ex-husband Olsen to go and find Daniel. He is a police officer who specialises in cases like Daniel's. He finds the bar where Daniel works and goes in to talk to him, not revealing that he knows Margot. He tells Daniel that his ex-wife was a dancer and that she is sick. This causes Daniel to go and visit Margot. She asks him to come back to work, choreographing. He refuses and she asks him to leave.

Daniel is upset and worried about Margot. He is sitting on the train, distraught and talking to himself, when Julie takes his hand and asks, 'Are you alright?' Her hand is black and burned. He looks up and finds that she is an aboriginal woman. He trusts her because he is certain she was not one of his captors because her skin is not white. They end up dating and falling in love. Daniel gives up his search for the three women.

Daniel returns to Margot with some ideas for a performance. He brings Julie to her house for lunch and Olsen is also there. He realises that Olsen knew who he was when they met at the pub. Julie and Daniel go to a club. Daniel goes to the bar to buy some drinks. He sees the nurse with the red hair that he had seen earlier in the film. He follows her into the toilet and grabs her. He tears off her clothes to try and find the marks he had been looking for. When he sees that they aren't there he runs from the bar. Some men run after him and grab him. He is arrested for assault.

Julie is upset and won't see him, although it is implied that maybe she rings Olsen and gets him to go to the police station where Daniel is being held. Olsen comes and gives Daniel a hug. Daniel begins to tell him everything that has happened to him, and that is where the film ends.