Candy

Candy wakes from a daydream during her father's social sciences class and returns to the real world. The surreal moment hints at a larger journey that blurs between fantasy and reality. This opening establishes the film's dreamlike, disorienting tone.

After a poetry recital, eccentric Welsh poet MacPhisto offers Candy a ride home in his limousine. He forces himself on her but becomes too drunk to continue. The encounter foreshadows further predatory, surreal events on her journey.

With MacPhisto incapacitated, Emmanuel helps Candy bring him inside. In the basement, MacPhisto recites poetry while humping a mannequin, provoking Emmanuel to sexually assault Candy. The scene deepens Candy's vulnerability to violence.

Shocked by the events, TM decides to send Candy to live with his twin brother Jack and his wife Livia in New York City. This move uproots her from home and sets her on a chaotic cross-country journey.

At the airport, Emmanuel's sisters accuse Candy of corrupting their brother, triggering a scuffle. A clash leaves TM unconscious due to a head injury as the Christians attempt to flee the scene.

The family escapes aboard a military plane commanded by General Smight. He orders a blood transfusion for TM in exchange for Candy and attempts to impregnate her. Realizing the danger, Smight triggers an emergency paratrooper jump and then leaps out, slipping from his parachute harness.

After landing in New York, Dr. Krankheit performs TM's surgery in front of an audience, turning the operation into a public spectacle. The procedure underscores the film's invasive control over Candy and her family.

During a post-operative cocktail party, Uncle Jack attempts to seduce Candy. Dr. Calvin Dunlap berates her for perceived lewd behavior, causing her to faint from shock.

Dr. Abraham Krankheit lures Candy into a private examination and coerces sex. Later, Candy discovers he has branded the nurses and plans to brand Livia, prompting her to flee the hospital.

Candy wanders into a Sicilian bar in Greenwich Village, where mobsters harass her. An underground filmmaker, Jonathan J. John, takes her into the men’s room to film, but a flood and a police intervention interrupt the scene and Candy escapes.

In Central Park, a hunchback escorts Candy to a deserted mansion where a gang of thieves intrudes and a horrific assault occurs atop a grand piano. Police arrive and a chase culminates in a crash into a drag-queen club, allowing Candy to slip away.

The next morning Candy rides in the back of a semi-trailer truck, Grindl's sanctum, a sham guru. He teaches the seven stages of enlightenment as a pretext to have sex, and after several days on the road a new guru will guide her.

Candy reaches California and is chased by New York police, but outwits them. She then meets a robed guru with a toucan on his shoulder, who guides her toward an underground temple.

In an underground Hindu temple, the temple partially collapses during a cataclysm. As Candy and the guru become intimate, his face is washed clean to reveal that he is her brain-damaged father TM.

Candy wanders a field filled with banners and hippies, revisits many of the film's characters, and finally returns to outer space.