Suzette Shard, a celebrity English model thinking to get away from it all in fetid French Guyana, finds herself prey to the locals and their arcane, mysterious SM rituals. But the gifted employees of the French space programme have foibles that make the locals look like rank amateurs in the ways of corporal punishment. Against the forbidding background of Devil's island, Suze realises that if she wanted to find freedom, this is the last place she should have come...