Doña Juana Azurduy, widow of Padilla, is visited in November 1825 by the liberators Simón Bolívar and Antonio José de Sucre in the city of Chuquisaca.
Maria Francisca, a wealthy young heiress and her friend Mariana De Castro, a young protestant widow, are accused of witchcraft and taken before the Inquisition of Lima, Peru .
In this artistic rendering of De Sade's classic novel, Justine endures extreme torture and violation at the hands of the Marquis De Sade's disciples of pain in a number of perverse practices illustrating that virtue is no match for vice.