Mystery

Radio personality Jack interviews prostitutes, asking them to tell his audience how they began her careers. Jill, neglected by her wealthy parents, becomes promiscuous to gain attention and becomes a prostitute when her family cuts off her allowance. Jody, who's husband travels frequently, enjoys sex with other men; he finds out and divorces her and she returns to prostitution as her means of support. Ann, whose mother was also a prostitute, pursues to occupation to support herself and her husband. Teenager Amy enjoys the money and favours older men bestow upon her. Barbara is raped by her drunken stepfather and runs away and becomes a prostitute when her boyfriend rejects her.

William is a down on his luck druggie in Paris. He takes a room in a seedy boarding house after being mugged for drugs in the street. As the pain of withdrawl racks his feeble body, he hears a strange and wonderful cure coming from the room above his: The sound of a violin. The instrument is played by a girl painfully shy, mute and terrified to open the window in her garret room, for to open it means destruction for her. originally performed as a play, the film version captures all of the atmosphere, mystery and fear of the play. E. Dale Smith playes the luckless William, while the role of Erica Zann is played by two actresses: One represents the mute violinist herself, the other the voice within yearning to get out.