Clarissa Cornwall is a respectable university lecturer who has little time for romance until she encounters the insolently sexy Nicholas St Clair in her class on erotic literarature. Suddenly her position - and the age gap between them - no longer seems to matter as she finds herself becoming obsessed with the mysterious young man. She soon finds herself in a secret affair with this dangerously charsimatic student, who likes playing power games. However, Clarissa begins to take an increasing number of risks in order to satisfy her longing for her lustful pupil.