- A series of related episodes featuring the erotic escapades of a young New York heiress and the people associated with her.
- Pauline is a wealthy and married New York heiress who embarks on a series of sexual encounters with various people. She keeps in close contact with Gypsy, a tarot reader whom Pauline writes letters describing in minute detail about her conquests from seducing a French stable boy, to having sex with a gas station attendant, to a visiting Nigerian princess with a past, and to a fantasy lover, which apparently stems from her past involving a flashback sequence showing Pauline's young grand mother and younger sister taking a verse from the bible a little too far and seducing their own father.—Anonymous
- After the opening title, which appears over an indistinct shot showing something that could be a bell, a chess piece, or a street at night, the first scene shows two unidentified women making love.
Then there is another sequence showing a young woman named Pauline having sex with an anonymous man.
Pauline is shown having sex in a horse stable with her stable boy whom she is addressing in French while delivering a voice-over commentary addressed to a person named 'Gypsy' about having sex with the French-speaking stable boy that her husband, David, brought back from France.
Next we see Gypsy, apparently a witch and tarot reader, sitting in a room alone except for a black cat. Gypsy reads a letter to the viewers, smokes opium and masturbates while addressing to the viewers about Pauline and how she keeps in contact with her by writing various letters about her sexual conquests from private afternoons, bragging about incest, lechery and violence. Gypsy writes a letter back asking Pauline to further explain her feelings addressing "my present is your present, but yours is not mine."
Next, we see Pauline and her husband, David, and their chauffeur, Rizio, emerge from a luxurious country house and enter a 1930s vintage limousine. As Rizio drives, Pauline and David sit silently in the back seat while Pauline delivers another voice-over monologue addressing another letter to Gypsy describing her passionate but barren husband and how she cannot seem to take the same interest in him as she once did. The limo pulls into a gas station. While Rizio fills up the car with fuel, David waits in the car while Pauline goes to the ladies room. The young gas station attendant follows her into the ladies room and has sex with her in a stall. They are very passionate. The attendant climaxes inside her and collapses to the floor in exhaustion.
While Gypsy sits and masturbates in her room, she fantasizes about a nude Pauline against a white background intercut with Pauline leaving the gas station and riding away in the limo with her husband and driver.
Next, Gypsy is sitting behind a table and again addressing the viewers about her pack of Tarot cards and laying out three of them representing Pauline's past; The Empress, the symbol of the female and fertility; the Emperor, symbolizing fraternity and masculinity; and the Devil, symbol of the domination of matter over spirit. Gypsy then reads out loud another letter from Pauline explains that her great-grandfather and two daughters came to America from Poland in 1903 and they lived in a small apartment on Mulberry Street in New York. The so-called "old man" was very religious and very overprotective of his two daughters.
In a flashback sequence to the turn of the 20th century, we see Pauline's young grandmother (played by Pauline in a double role) and her younger sister sitting at a table next to their scruffy father as he reads the following Bible passage from Genesis Chapter 19, Verses 30-38 about the story of Lot and his two daughters, the only survivors from the destruction of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, whom over two nights got him drunk and seduced him in order to become impregnated to preserve the seed of their father in which the incest offspring became the orgin of the Moabites and Ammonites. Inspired by this, Pauline-Grandmother and her sister get their old man drunk on wine until he passes out and they carry him to the bedroom. Then as narrated in a voice-over by Gypsy, they had sex with the unconscious Old Man in bed with each woman taking turns riding him. The Old Man never woke up and the whole night remained a secret between the two girls.
In the present, Gypsy runs into her room and reads another letter from Pauline saying that she has another lover; a Nigerian princess named Nacala who came to America to celebrate her beauty. But eventually evil forces had other things planned, violent things that made Pauline and her black lesbian lover suffer.
The next sequence shows Pauline and her black lesbian lover, Nacala, sitting on a sofa where Nacala says to Pauline: "Do you know I still have nightmares from that first time? Not so much as in the beginning, but it still bothers me a little... I can picture myself all over again leaving your apartment that night. I had only been here a few weeks and it was late. Very late".
In another sequence (cut from recent prints) Nacala is walking down a dark street somewhere in New York City when she gets accosted by two black pimps who chase her down the street and into a seedy apartment building. They catch up to her on the building staircase and prepare to rape her. Nacala manages to fight one off by grabbing a broken bottle and slashing one of her attackers across his face. But the second attacker disarms her, holds her over the staircase railing and rapes her at knife point. After he is finished, Nacala's rapist leaves her there on the staircase, and also leaving behind his dead accomplice.
The next sequence shows Pauline and Nacala making love, punctuated by fades to black as Gypsy delivers another voice-over narration about her jealousy with Pauline who doesn't accept her letters or answer her phone calls and why would Pauline who had never known a jealous moment in her life shut Gypsy out.
The penultimate section shows Pauline having sex with a man whose face cannot be seen as Pauline narrates another letter to Gypsy telling her that she had a dream about them making love and that Gypsy turned into a mysterious man whom had sex with Pauline and never spoke or showed a hint of jealousy or possessiveness that Gypsy has been showing. This sequence is intercut with Gypsy walking nude through a forest.
In the final scene, Gypsy is sitting alone once again in her dark living room delivering a final monologue: "I tried to fight the desire. I tried to acknowledge its sinister nature. But without coercion she never would have returned. Now I must succumb to it. She must succumb to it." Gypsy uses a lighted candle to burn all of Pauline's letters that she has read out loud throughout the movie adding: "There's no need for these anymore." Gypsy then continues saying: The universe needs patience. False unity is no unity. There is no reality except human reality. Gypsy then walks into her bedroom and to her bed on which a nude Pauline is sleeping on it. "I've been waiting. It's been lonely and dark for me since you left me." Pauline wakes up and looks directly at Gypsy, but does not say a word. Freeze frame. Fade to black.
The end credits show more shots of nude Pauline against a white background.
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By what name was 9 Lives of a Wet Pussy (1976) officially released in Canada in English?
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