Lying, bribing, hijacking
talent, and dodging police, Denham nevertheless
gets the steamship Venture to sea in a
mad quest to find the fabled Skull Island.
Tale of Tales believes that Sato's
talents help capture the many interpretations of the woman who would demand the head of John the Baptist, from the «teenager who falls in love with the wrong man at the wrong time», to Oscare Wilde's depiction of «a
mad woman, lurking in the shadows of our souls, a selfish, passionate, willful creature who will stop at nothing to
get what she wants.»