A tale of lust and bestiality set in a zoo. Delmas, the zookeeper, is obsessively in love with a bizarre carrion-creature, while his daughter Dol makes increasingly desperate attempts to be noticed. It ends badly, with the creature dying, Delmas devoured by tigers, and Dol herself imprisoned in the tiger pit.
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