High school student Candy (former ''Miss Teen Sweden'' Ewa Aulin) seemingly descends to Earth from space. In the relatively simple plot, she naively endures an escalating series of situations in which her oblivious allure triggers satirical porn-film-like encounters. Roger Ebert wrote, "Candy caroms from one man to another like a nympho in a pinball machine, and the characters she encounters are improbable enough to establish Terry Southern's boredom with the conventions of pornography."<ref name=Ebert>Ebert, Roger (December 26, 1968) [http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19681226/REVIEWS/812260301/1023 Review: Candy (1968)] Chicago Sun Times Last accessed 2010-03-23.</ref>