When attractive young journalist Susanna James goes down to Cornwall to see what her boyfriend John Mitchell is really up to with Gothic writer Alicia Descourt, she discovers more than she's bargained for. Strange, disturbing erotic dreams are just the beginning of Susanna's journey of discovery into bizarre new realms of sensual experience. Soon dreams become reality - an exotic reality of dark hungers that will sweep Susanna into a whirlpool of forbidden passions and taboo pleasures of the flesh . . .