A nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. A woman, perhaps the Madonna, brings forth her baby to a crowd of intrusive paparazzi; she tries to flee them. Two men who are lovers marry and are arrested by the powers that be. The men are mocked and pilloried, tarred, feathered, and beaten. Loose in this contemporary world of electrical-power transmission lines is also Jesus. The elements, particularly fire and water, content with political power, which is intolerant and murderous.
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Tilda Swinton as Madonna/Voice Overs
Johnny Mills as Lover
Philip MacDonald as Joseph
Pete Lee-Wilson as Devil
Spencer Leigh as Mary Magdalene / Adam
Jody Graber as Young Boy
Roger Cook as Christ
Kevin Collins as Lover
Dawn Archibald as Nature Spirit
Milo Bell as Cast Member
Vernon Dobtcheff as Old Man at Sauna
Michael Gough as Voice Overs/Old Man at Sauna
Maribelle La Manchega as Spanish Dancer
Jessica Martin as Singer
Jack Birkett as Pontius (Orlando)
Leslie Randall as Old Man at Sauna
Mike Tezcan as Policeman
Matthew Wilde as Policeman
Stephen McBride as Narrator (voice)
Yolande Brener as Eve
Derek Jarman as Himself
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