The imperial palace is full of beautiful women, yet they live much like widows, wondering when the emperor will favor them. As it happens, a young man has a relative who is an eunuch in the castration chamber. Driven by poverty and desperate to make ends meet, he enters the palace to become an eunuch, begging them during the procedure to let him keep one last piece of his manhood. In a harem without men, he thrives.
