It's a shock to Phoebe when her university tutor quits during the build-up to her final exams. Replacement Gerrard Gottlieb is a very different kind of teacher - arrogant, harsh and challenging - with the desire, so it seems to Phoebe, to turn her safe and undemanding life upside down.

But under Gottlieb's influence Phoebe takes a fresh look at herself - and glimpses the raw hunger for sensual surrender that gnaws within her. Suddenly she yearns for wild passion unleashed, for new experiences that will lead her to discover the depths of her true sensuality, so with the cruel eyes of her new tutor upon her, Phoebe sets out to complete her private education...