Facing up to her own quiet and lonely life, a spinster college professor decides to follow her erotic fantasies of sex with strangers and sexual submission. She books passage on a tramp steamer bound for South America.
Her voyage takes her into the arms of a handsome and sexy, but mysterious seaman, and he, in turn, takes her on an incredible journey of sex games, sexual domination, and submission. When the sex games turn dangerous, the two flee, isolating themselves into a cocoon of suspense and self-examination that surprises them both. An erotic romance that transcends the boundaries of imagination.