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Shortly before the start of a recital at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, pianist Stefanos Ballis has an accident and is taken to hospital. As she goes to see him, his wife Elli, distraught, tells her friend Stella how she met Stefanos seven years ago, when he was giving her piano lessons at her home, how she fell in love with him and married him—despite her military father's opposition—and had two children with him: Petrakis and Chloe...
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After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his kingdom, wanton and proud young Salomé comes before her king with an unreasonable demand. Beguiled by John the Baptist, and then scorned for the sake of his god, lascivious Salomé—encouraged by her mother, the vindictive, Herodias—commands that John be executed and his head delivered on a silver platter.

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.