Five more-or-less distinct sections, all featuring “Freak” Orlando, a woman played by the late Magdalena Montezuma, who appears in various guises and deformities throughout.

A sartorially resplendent woman of few words arrives in Berlin with plans to live out the rest of her days as a drunkard.

A group of tormented patients stage a coup at an oppressive, dismal asylum after they’re not allowed out on an excursion.