Virtuous Clara Fairfax leaves her ordered life in Georgian England to embark on the Grand Tour of Europe. Instructed by her mysterious fiance, Count Anton di Maliban, Clara travels through the cities of decadent Europe, from icebound Amsterdam to sultry Constantinople, undergoing a series of lessons in pleasure and pain. By making Clara explore each of the five senses in the most perverse but delightful ways he can devise, Anton awakens the sensualist within her. But Clara longs to submit the Count to the most delicious torment. Will he be able to restrain his pupil once she has learnt her final lesson?