While The Rolling Stones rehearse "Sympathy for the Devil" in the studio, an alternating narrative reflects on 1968 society, politics and culture through five different vignettes.
An insecure Briton and a Briton of Jamaican descent share a London apartment together.
Following the suicide of her mother, an emotionally disoriented schoolgirl is swept away to live in the countryside by wealthy family friends. Her entangled need for comfort and desire to explore her powers of sexual fascination soon embroils the entire household.
After a plane carrying three Agents crashes in the Himalayas, they are rescued by an advanced civilisation secretly living in Tibet who grant them enhanced versions of the ordinary five senses, and intellectual and physical abilities.