How Mata Hari Lost Her Head and Found Her Body — ?How Mata Hari Lost Her Head and Found Her Body? is a fantastical biography of the iconic dancer, courtesan, and spy executed for double espionage in the First World War. Reinventing Hari?s life according to the strange circumstances of her death - she was decapitated after her execution and her head mysteriously stolen from the museum where it was displayed - the film imagines her as a striptease artist whose talent for removing her head takes Belle Époque Paris by storm. Interweaving history with mythology and archival photographs with original video, the result is a unique look into an era when Orientalism sold, scandal became success, and deviant desires equaled a crime punishable by death.