Tous les films de D. Stevens
The unusual bond between a worldly European businessman and a naïve American girl takes an unexpectedly sinister turn in award-winning photojournalist D. Stevens's revelatory look at a highly controversial lifestyle. Inspired by actual events, Stevens's drama centers on the relationship shared between a woman whose life is crumbling into ruin, and a man desperate to overcome a devastating emotional trauma. Philip (Pierre du Lat) has lost woman who once made his life complete. Mary (Andrea Edmondson) is trapped in a foreign land with no one to turn to. When Philip proposes to Mary that the pair enter into a relationship in which he acts as the master and she assumes the role of the pet, the hesitant young beauty eventually agrees. Though Mary gradually begins to find happiness in her unusual role, the sudden intrusion of an underground slave labor ring threatens to tear the submissive young woman from her master and thrust her into a dark world from which she may never emerge.
The story follows a young woman who, in an emotional and financial crisis, succumbs to the charm of an aristocratic benefactor. Their relationship develops from her desire to be loved and cared for and his desire to overcome the loss of his beloved setter, a loyal and devoted pet. She agrees for a considerable sum of money to become his human pet, to sleep in a cage, never wear clothes, and to be led on a leash for a period of six-months. His desire to showcase his beautiful new pet and to have her market value appraised prompts him to place her on the GSM [Global Slave Market]. His arrogance and wealth together are no match for the power and ruthlessness of 21st century slave traders. This exploration of power, trust and captivity were inspired by the prevalence of more-or-less consensual slave/master related lifestyles as well as the existence of global systemic servitude that allows for cheap labor, sex slaves, organ sales etc.
