Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes
photographs. Then he captures the art student Miranda and keeps her in the
cellar of the large house where he patiently waits for the barriers of class and
taste to break down in the limbo of their isolation. She, the creator, desperate
for her freedom, tries to understand but cannot banish her contempt for
everything anti-life that the collector stands for.