When a young English minister (Hugh Grant) takes an Australian parish, his first assignment is to dissuade a local painter (Sam Neill) from showing a provocative painting. He and his wife (Tara Fitzgerald) visit the artist's home only to be smitten by three ravishing models posing, ironically, as the mythological sirens who lured men to their doom. On the artist's bohemian estate, the minister and his wife are shown a guilt-free Eden-like world where they find their own sexuality awakening.