A young and handsome stranger moves in a villa during a particularly hot summer. The intrigued residents let him. But one of them starts questioning the stranger's motives.
A crippled dwarf is forced to become jester to a tyrannical king, but when the king abuses a beautiful dwarf with whom the jester is in love the jester plots a terrible revenge.
The townspeople who live above "The Loop," a machine built to unlock and explore the mysteries of the universe, experience things previously consigned to the realm of science fiction.