Eloise Highfield is left in charge of the upbringing of Celia Bright's orphaned daughter, Anne. Disturbed and excited by the instructions left by Celia for Anne's education, Eloise invites Michael, a painter of erotic subjects, to assist her. As they read Celia's explicit account of servitude to her own master, they embark on ever more extreme experiments. But Anne is keeping her own diary of events...Celia, Eloise, Anne - three women discovering the pleasures of submission; three interwoven accounts of a shared journey into blissful depravity.