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He assumes a new name, Johnny Dean, appears at the house of Turner ( Mick Jagger ), ingratiates himself with Pherber ( Anita Pallenberg ), one of the female inhabitants, and moves in.

Turner is a reclusive, eccentric former rock star who has " lost his demon " and who lives there with his female friends Pherber and Lucy ( Michele Breton ), with whom he enjoys a non-possessive and bi-sexual ménage à trois.

At first, Chas is contemptuous of Turner and Turner attempts to return the rent paid in advance but they start influencing each other.

Chas also enjoys intimate moments with Pherber during which he shows his homophobic tendencies.

Pherber and Turner understand his conflict and want to understand what makes him function so well within his world.

To speed up the process they make him take hallucinogenic drugs ( Amanita muscaria ).

After that evening Chas opens up.

He begins a caring relationship with Lucy, implying that he outgrew the psychological boundaries he was stuck in due to having to function as a stereotypically masculine man within a gangster world.