. S&Man is mainly focused around Eric Rost who literally stalks women for weeks for his films. If the women accept his invitation to be a part of his films, they are "bound, gagged, tortured, and eventually butchered." In order to show the motivations of people involved with these types of films, he shows gory clips that Nick Schager of The Village Voice described as "repulsive" and "absorbing". The film has a fictional subplot where Erik Marcisak acts as if he is Eric Rost in a role that tries to raise the question on whether or not Eric Rost's films are really snuff films. Opinions from experts in the field say that horror films are both sadistic and masochistic while discussing paraphilias and saying that most voyeurs may seem creepy, but are not dangerous. Carol Clover, the author of Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in Modern Horror, is featured providing facts about horror filmmaking. Eric Rost is shown saying, "I don't shoot movies to make art; I shoot movies so perverts will give me money.

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