Delta of Venus is a 1995 American erotic drama film set in 1940 Paris on the brink of the German invasion during World War II. The story follows Elena Martin, a struggling young American writer who falls into a highly passionate, lustful romance with a successful fellow expatriate novelist named Lawrence Walters. Their intense connection shatters abruptly when Elena catches Lawrence committing an act of physical infidelity on the street with a sex worker. To financially survive and fuel her creative inspiration, a heartbroken Elena begins nude modeling and writing erotic stories for an anonymous, wealthy collector via her publisher. This creative journey pushes her into an underground bohemian world where she witnesses and participates in unconventional sexual arrangements, group intimacies, and an opium-fueled lesbian threesome. As the shadow of war darkens Paris, Elena realizes that the mysterious collector funding her liberation and pushing her sexual boundaries is actually a remorseful Lawrence, who engineered the arrangement to force her artistic awakening.