Fourteen-year-old Nate, living with his inattentive American parents in Tokyo in the 1920s, is years ahead of himself in curiosity and has an interest in being taught exotic and exhausting sex by men. His music teacher, the German, Hans Bender, has just the opportunities to offer Nate in this vein.
Robbie, 17, has been dropped by his date at the theater. He goes to his favorite diner, where he meets Helen, 21, a fascinating woman who proves a delightful dancer after she feeds nickels to the jukebox.
A woman relates to her husband how she lost her virginity and discovered a liking for sex with black men. The story takes place during the summer of 1967 in San Francisco, the Summer of Love. Free love was the rule, but sex wasn't always consensual.
1947; a girl's dismembered body was found, placed by the roadside as though she had simply lay down there, her body halved. The police allowed the evidence to be compromised by the hacks who trampled over everything and the murderers were never caught; not by the police anyway. This is the story of what I like to think happened; vengeful women carry out their own investigations and bring those guilty to a justice of their own, one weak link gives up the others; retribution is divinely served.