'Underneath she wore nothing except silk stockings held up by silver garters decorated with tiny bells. Smiling seductively, she held out her arms to her admirer and shimmied her body. The little bells on her thighs tinkled. So did the ones that hung from her nipples . . .'
New Orleans 1925. The Catnip Club is the place for strong drink, hot jazz - and exotic women. The Creole beauty Sheree is the latest sensation but beneath her sparkling facade she is a woman in turmoil. An innocent in the city, she longs for the touch of her lover she left behind. She's just right for exploitation by the owners of the club, Rene and his sexually sophisticated wife, Stacey.
But Sheree is not the only performer to figure in Rene and Stacey's sensual games. There's Max the trumpeter, Emmeline the erotic dancer - and many more. All of them young, beautiful and desperate to make it in a world where anything goes . . .