French artist Henry Louse is frustrated. Painting landscapes and fruit just doesn't inspire him anymore, and he needs something else. His agent suggests that he start painting women. So they check out a local nightspot and find a bevy of beauties willing to pose for him: singers, dancers, and especially, strippers.

Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormentor. As the police close in around him, he makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead man’s fiancée, a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul behind his aggression.

Gene and Pokie are on vacation in Mexico when they learn that their buddy Dusty has been bumped off.