Riverstone loosely bases this story on the Old Testament book of Judith - it features seduction, betrayal, and bloody violence, the kind of thing that prim Sunday school teachers generally leave unmentioned, assuming they know these stories at all. This interpretation goes way past R. Judith and her sidekick Esther (who get an Old Testament book of her own) appear here as curvy, top-heavy, and averse to all clothing. Holophrenes and his army appear equally unclad, which shows an apparent epidemic of priapism among the invaders. Judith's seduction appears in lengthy and lubricious detail, as do other encounters between other women and the soldiers. Holophernes, as mightiest of the attackers, is given the mightiest of organs to attack with, and all stand in awe of Esther and Judith for surviving its onslaught.