As the movie opens, Catherine strokes the sleek curves of airplane fuselages, echoing the camera's loving pans à la Kenneth Anger's Kustom Kar Kommandos, as her flight instructor services her from off screen.
After an extended sequence that takes place during a Roman orgy and recalls Kenneth Anger’s gaudy Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, the locale shifts to a remote military outpost, where the rest of the film unfolds.