When the impoverished parents of young Lucille are thrown a financial lifeline by the wealthy and debonair Lester Raleigh, they are more than happy to consent to any terms the rakish gentlemen wishes to impose; even if those terms require that their daughter remains in his custody as security for the loan. And given their liberal use of the whip and birch on the poor girl, they willingly agree that the gentleman administers any punishment he sees fit while she is in his care.

What follows is Lucille's exposure to Mr Raleigh's den of debauchery, the rooms of his mansion estate given over...