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One after the other, women who are having lesbian relationships with psychiatrist Yumi are found brutally murdered with their internal organs exposed. Saegusa, a detective and the lover of Miyuki, a female teacher and patient of the doctor, investigates the case. During the investigation, a gang rape case at a school emerges. The victim is Miyuki and the school doctor is Yumi. The culprit has already been found brutally murdered. Meanwhile, Miyuki has been held captive by the perpetrator, with a wire around her neck and forced to masturbate and fondled with oil.

Streetwise but down-on-his-luck, Clarence is struggling to find a better life for his family, while fighting to free himself of debt. Captivated by the power and glory of the rising Messiah and His apostles, he risks everything to carve his own path to a divine life, and ultimately discovers that the redemptive power of belief may be his only way out.

In the kingdom of Kindaor, traitor Sedesmondo kills his brother, the King of Kindaor, and becomes the tyrant of kingdom. He abandons the prince Arminio to beasts in the woods, but lions don't kill him and breed him as one of them.

A film about the Maroons—freed or escaped slaves that created their own communities during slavery. Both stories are examples of Gerima’s driving motivation—sankofa, reclaiming the past in order to move forward.