Georgina Oliphant commissions her friend Lily Carmichael to create a sculpture for a new wing at the National Gallery.
Georgina's wealthy father George, who owns a pharmaceutical company, is giving her daughter the money so he can use it as a tax deduction.
His wife Celia is not enthusiastic about Karl posing and is caught up in a new age religion led by Baba Charles.
He then wrote a first draft of Lust and Revenge which was received positively by the head of the South Australian Film Corporation.
The Sun Herald said the film was Cox's "most accessible in years... isn't especially memorable - it's a mood piece.