This is one of the classier bondage productions out there, starring a fantastic quartet of players. The storyline, however, requires someone expert in unwrapping the tentacles of soap opera relationships. A housewife, for instance.

In this Euro-flavored opus, Sharon Kane portrays an older dominatrix who, ostensibly (that's the key word here), has wealth at her fingertips. Shayla LaVeaux is her slave and a treasure trove of Kane anecdotes. In one segment Shayla wows the crowd with a story about the time Kane flogged some girl's tits in a monastery in Brussels.

Just to show what a great slave Shayla is, there's a scene portraying her, in weighted collar, getting some rack time and having her butt flayed (rhythmically and tenderly, I might add) in Kane's dungeon with an apparatus that looks like a New Year's Eve hornblower. One wonders at this point if it would have been a more significant torture statement to submit Shayla to reruns of Dick Clark New Year's Eve specials?

Be that as it may, the beautiful Chasey Lain enters the picture and her va-va voom appeal becomes the battleground between Sharon and a younger dominatrix, Kaylin Nicole. Now, if I were Shayla, I'd be getting pretty pissed off at this juncture with the new victim in town, but Shayla maintains this que sera, sera attitude.

In the Chasey torture scene, the electric-eyed one is manacled and has her naked ass played with by Kaylin and Kane (sounds like a real estate law firm). The newly-formed WCW tag team then caress Chasey's skin with whips and Chasey returns the magnanimous gesture with kisses on Kayiin's boots. But the best is yet to come (at least for a bondage feature). Chasey makes love to the black strap-on, and Kaylin, in turn, fucks a restrained Chasey. There's a presumed D.P in progress, but the camera coverage lap dances around this fact.

The competition for affection ensues, but let's see if I'm at fault in the logic department, or have missed something. Kane wants Chasey. Kaylin wants Chasey, but Kane's willing to accept Chasey as a gift from Kaylin if Kaylin, a mistress, submits as a slave because Kaylin is willing to give herself completely to someone she hates out of love for Chasey. Man, things travel fast in the bondage world, though it sounds like Kaylin's getting the shitty end of the stick and Kane doesn't seem to have any bargaining power.

The Shakespearean drama plays out with Kaylin in the torture chamber, her head locked in a cuckoo clock rigging as Kane lays lashes on her ass. Kaylin is then shackled and her back stroked with a whip. The best moments come when Kaylin is chaired down with a leather hood restraint as Shayla and Kane bathe her tits with kisses.

In the immortal words of Meatloaf: "I'll do anything for love, but I won't do THAT."

Give this classy production a position of prominence in your specialty section — you can do that.