Laura?s desires for her life run deep, and when she meets Bernard, she believes she?s found the man she?s always dreamed of and desires. The two marry and begin their life together in a luxurious house that?s discreetly located on 50 private acres, behind a high surrounding wall. Though they experience the usual ups and downs of a new marriage, Laura settles in well to her unique lifestyle. With specific plans in mind, Bernard takes Laura?s transformation slowly. The experience is deeply arousing, though it?s troubling too. As the weeks go by, she sees little of the man she married and far more of the governess he hired to attend to her physical needs. With so little outside stimulation and no access to the natural world her days and weeks just blend into one.