从前，在—个遥远的国家，住着一个长着驴耳朵的国王。国王每天把王冠戴在头上，因此，除了他自己之外，谁也不知道他长着驴耳朵。
一天，国王把理发师召进了王宫，因为国王的头发长得太长了，不得不让理发师来理一理。国王担心理发师会把这个可怕的秘密说出去，理完头发之后，国王就命令士兵用毛巾塞住理发师的嘴巴，把他推到城外的旷野里杀死了。
旷野里长着一棵瘦弱的豌豆苗，理发师被杀的时候，一朵细小的豌豆花儿正在悄悄绽开，一滴鲜红的血溅在花芯儿上。
鲜血知道国王长着驴耳朵，但鲜血不说话，只把这个可怕的秘密藏在豌豆花芯儿里。
不久，一个青青的豆荚在花芯儿里长成了，豆荚里包着三颗豆子，它们是理发师的鲜血变成的，它们都记得那个可怕的秘密。但它们被空荚裹得严严实实，一句话也说不出来。In a genre defined by shocking violence and psychosexual kink, it remains perhaps the most over-the-top "giallo" in EuroCult history: former MGM starlet and doomed James Dean paramour Pier Angeli (two decades past her Golden Globe award for "Most Promising Newer" and just one year before her tragic death) star in this ultra-lurid epic packed with decapitations, pet vultures, creepy incest, groovy fashions, cyanide baths, swirly psychedelics, inexplicable plot twists, Nazi death camp flashbacks and more. Eleonora Rossi Drago, Fernando Sancho and Luciano Catenacci co-star in the 1970 sickie that would make Sigmund Freud himself scream in horror. Unfortunately, IN THE FOLDS OF THE FLESH is presently only available with an English-dubbed dialogue track. [Dubbing is generally avoided whenever possible (though not an option in this particular instance).]
