Budding film director Dennis Morrison (Michael Armstrong (cinematographer)), producer Clive Potter (Terence Edmond), and screenwriter Harris Tweedle (Christopher Timothy) are hired by seedy erotic film producer Benny U. Murdoch (Roy Kinnear) to make a dirty movie based on the poem ''The Ballad of Eskimo Nell''. However they run into difficulty when each of the production's backers want a completely different style of film made. Then Murdoch makes off with the money and the three have to produce four ''different'' versions of the movie to keep everybody happy - a gay Western (genre), a hardcore porno, a Kung Fu-style musical, and a wholesome family production.