Whipping Girl

Whipping Girl is the story of Karen Bouchet, a lonely young girl who, through a lurid brush with the supernatural, finds herself enmeshed in a mystical double life by which she fulfils her most heartfelt desires. The encounter is much more than a means of escape, as she is forced to cope with her many external struggles in the "real" world by also living out a drama that, at first, appears merely to take place in the arena of her imagination. Her desires of romance, friendship and popularity are fulfilled in both worlds, but as a consequence the fantasies become steadily more intense. As she delves deeper into her newfound identity, the creature who stages it appears to know much more about her than she knows about herself. Ultimately, Karen's other life devolves into an ultrablack world in which psychedelic orgies of violence and eroticism are the norm, and in the midst of this adventure, she learns that she has unwittingly given way to a terrible fate that imperils not only her, but all of mankind.