Synopsis
Alex is a university-educated Chineses-American Working in Hong Kong as a private English teacher, She is hired by wealthy businessman Henry, and assumes that she is to instruct his daughter. To Alex’s surprise, her new pupil is Henry’s Mainland Chinese mistress Michelle. As their relationship progresses, it is Michelle who becomes the teacher, opening Alex’s eyes to the seductive twilight world she inhabits. Alex finds herself experiencing increasingly vivid sexual fantasies. She becomes fascinated with Henry, and her relationship with Eric, her lackadaisical live-in lover, becomes ever more strained. When Michelle decides to return to China, Alex takes her place as Henry’s mistress, However, she soon finds that his money cannot but her happiness and security. She find that her new ‘freedom’ is actually a strap confining her heart and spirit.