 Somewhere in the future, the Canadian Academy for Erotic Inquiry is investigating the theories of para-psychologist Luther Stringfellow. Seven young adults volunteer to submit to a form of brain surgery that removes their power of speech but increases their power for telepathic communications. An unseen group of students observes the results. As the experiment progresses, Stringfellow s theories are borne out. Later, aphrodisiacs and various drugs are introduced to the subjects to expose an inherent  polymorphous perversity . In the end, they are isolated from each other, provoking antagonism and violence between them, resulting in two suicides.