Peter, a married psychotherapist, and Suzanne, a professional dominatrix, have been engaged in an affair of sensual dominance and submission in an S&M dungeon where they must abide by the rules. Now, those rules are about to be broken when they agree to see each other on the outside. As Peter becomes increasingly obsessed with the troubled Suzanne, they embark on a sordid psychosexual journey into their tortured pasts through their most carnal desires.
Acting
Geno Lechner's Suzanne—damaged, commanding, impossible to look away from.
Direction
Werthman's clinical eye makes the dungeon feel like a confessional.
Director
Eric Werthman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Eric Werthman is a practicing psychotherapist; he co-wrote the script with his own patient, who later became his producing partner. The ethics are... layered.
Released the same year as 'Secretary,' this film got buried—partly for being too grim, partly for having zero studio polish. It's the ugly cousin of glossy kink cinema, and arguably more honest because of it.
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