When the ambassador husband of Lady Elena Hamilton (Anita Rinaldi) is kidnapped by pirates, and she receives no help from the authorities, she decides to rescue him herself. To this end, she recruits the roguish Captain Thomas Butler (Carlo De Palma), and together they put together an eccentric band of misfits for the mission.

Pierfancesco Campanella (who also wrote the film) stars as a university psych grad student working on his doctorate. He embarks on some radical research by shooting up, and the next thing we know, he's killing his mother by depriving her of drugs, poking a baby with a needle, and generally behaving rather badly. He winds up at a rich man's residence, hooks up with his spoiled daughter, and the two embark on a picaresque journey of debauchery and murder.

Sigh. Another day, another misleading title. Let's get one thing straight right off the bat. This is NOT a sequel to Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust. It isn't even an imitator. It isn't even fiction (at least, it isn't meant to be). It's original title is “Nuova Guinea, l'isola dei cannibali” (“New Guinea: Island of Cannibals”), and it's a 1974 mondo movie, purporting to feature footage shot for the benefit of Queen Elizabeth on the occasion of her visit to the island, so she would have a better idea of the culture she was encountering. Whatever. In any event, this is a film made five years prior to the movie its title suggests it is following, and doesn't actually have any cannibals, as such, in it.