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The memoir is set in New York City. An art gallery owner enters a nine-week affair with a brutal, brutish, sadomasochistic Wall Street broker who regularly sexually abuses her in his apartment for amusement and pleasure. Unable to say no and sinking into complicity, the woman finds herself enjoying the beginning of the affair. Eventually, the relationship culminates in criminality, depravity and violence when he convinces her to rob a man at knifepoint in an elevator and forces her into having sex with someone else while he watches.

The woman is forced to make a choice between her life and sanity or a mentally impoverished man incapable of feeling love, but who has manipulated her to love him. He often leaves her tied up, in immense pain, in his opulent apartment for hours at a time.

The memoir ends after her nervous breakdown when he leaves her at a mental hospital. After undergoing therapy that lasts for months, she never sees him again.