A young family, all foreigners, are arrested one night.  The father, the mother and the twin daughters are all taken to Mosquito Marsh, the horrible prison settlement in the middle of the jungle, where they are separated.

As soon as he sees them, the Governor is struck by the mother’s beauty, and blackmails her into becoming his sexual slave.  If she does not, he will harm her husband and her daughters.

Just to make the point, the husband is handed over to a homosexual jailer.

The beautiful twin daughters do not escape the horror and the humiliation.  They are handed over to the Bermudez, a rich family, who now become their legal guardians.

This places them at the mercy of Mrs Bermudez, a sadistic lesbian who is more than pleased to tutor the girls.  But they are the mercy too of Mr Bermudez, afflicted as he is by uncontrollable sexual desire, and by his sons, who are the same age as the girls.

With a woman’s touch, Cianni gives us insights into the feelings of the main characters.  She shows us the mother’s repulsion and fury as she is obliged to prostitute herself to the blackmailer.  She shows us the father’s impotence as he sees his wife forced to degrade herself and finally abused in the adjacent cell.  And she shows us the hatred and repugnance the twins feel towards their captors, especially the Bermudez sons, as they are forced to party with them, stripped totally naked except for handcuffs and a pair of high-heeled sandals…