The film opens with a brief scene serving as its introduction. A man is being caressed by feminine hands. The next shot includes the face of the woman, Tarantella (Tandra Quinn). A brief kiss between her and the man, ends with his lifeless body falling down. A disembodied voice asks the audience ''"Have you ever been kissed by a girl like this?"''<ref name="Grisbeck"></ref> The narrative properly begins in a desert. A narrator (Lyle Talbot) mocks the overblown ego of humanity, a race of puny bipeds which claims to own planet Earth and every living thing on it. Yet, they are outnumbered by the insects, and the hexapoda are likely to survive longer than humans.<ref name="Grisbeck"/> The narrator then claims that when men or women venture off ''"the well beaten path of civilization''" and deal with the unknown, the price of their survival is the loss of their sanity.<ref name="Grisbeck"/>