Carlos, a wealthy publisher, receives a package at work containing a human hand. The next day, a letter arrives asking if he’d like a forearm. As the packages and letters continue coming, his wife becomes suspicious, and he is stalked by a mysterious woman in black. What is Carlos’s deep, dark secret? Reaching it involves a gloomy mansion, LSD, and a trip down memory lane. THE EXQUISITE CORPSE is Barcelona School Vicente Aranda’s grisly, hallucinatory tale of masculine mediocrity placed at last before the judgment of women, with a cruel verdict.