Diary of a Nymphomaniac

A chronicle of the life of a middle-class French girl's sexual adventures, her then fall into prostitution, and her ultimate redemption. In Barcelona, Valére is very attached to her French grandmother Marie Tasso and likes to stay with her. While discussing sex with Val, Marie advises her that it's important to jot her life experience down and Val decides to write a diary. Val recalls her promiscuous love life and her lovers since her first sexual experience when she was 15. At the same time she loses her job to downsizing, she is informed that Marie has had a heart attack, and she visits her granny once more before she dies. She looks for another job and when she has an interview with executive Jaime, she falls in love for the first time--but he's not too good in bed. They move into a magnificent apartment together, and Val believes she has found the man of her life. Val gets a job with a gay Italian called Harry at a fashion house, but Jaime becomes jealous and changes his behavior. Val decides to leave Jaime when she gets pregnant and he does not think the baby is his. —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil To satisfy her sexual curiosity, attractive 28-year-old single woman Valérie decides to challenge the complexities of modern society in search of total pleasure. Cultivated and independent, Val constantly seeks new experiences to quench her pressing needs, going so far as to considering profiting from her strong addiction. However, in this male-dominated game, there is never a place for true love. Will Valérie ever find what she seeks? —Nick Riganas