A recently widowed American begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman.
Venice, 1596. Bassanio begs his friend Antonio, a prosperous merchant, to lend him a large sum of money so that he can woo Portia, a very wealthy heiress; but Antonio has invested his fortune abroad, so they turn to Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, and ask him for a loan.
A very personal interpretation, to say the least, of the passion of the Christ According to St. John.
