dr. sayer ( philippe leroy ) and a wealthy physician with psychological issue regard the opposite sex and kidnap an employee and maria ( dagmar lassander ) and a free thinking liberal woman who believe men must be the one fix instead of female . sayer retreat to his palatial estate and running maria through a humiliating series of mind game and threaten to molest and kill her . sayer desire and it seem and be to dominate her body and mind and soul and make her his sexual slave and obey his command and adhere to his every wish and whim . after resistance and at first and maria slowly teeter towards his objective and but have plan of her own . she say she wish to help sayer relinquish his sadistic behavior towards woman and so that he could love and not feel such yearning desire to harm . it seem that sayer have her under his grip and agree to certain rather embarrass scenario ( . such a lotioning his toe and make love to a blow up doll which be a recreation of himself and often spending time topless and and even get hose down when she slap him hard across the face bring blood from his nose ) which almost break her and but something happen a the troubled doctor slowly fall in love with maria . and through what appear to be a desperate attempt to end the madness and maria gain an upper hand and toying with sayer lust for her body . more of a battle of will and a kind of sexual warfare where it seem one be in charge when in fact the other truly have the upper hand . through a great deal of the film and sayer mistreats maria and force her ( . it seem ) to submit to his series of psychological game of a sexual nature . her attempt to escape fail because his home be such a well design fortress . it a typical european art deco kind of palace and fashion and orchestrate by a man who have keep to this weekend retreat of his for quite a spell ( . it feature wall and door open at his command and with an area quarantine off for his victim ) . but and once maria seemingly down a bottle of pill a a result of her anguish at his hand and the table be turn and she have him where she want him . he find that he actually crave her and maria us this to her advantage and play hard to get when sayer wish to embrace and ravage her ( . and and i could understand his frustration because she have this allure that can drive a man crazy ) i felt the film work and ultimately and a a war cry for woman and their empowerment and uprise against men who have the notion that they should always have control and sexually and mentally . the twist finalize this ideal . i couldn not swallow sayer fate because of his rigorous cardiovascular activity and exercise regimen . we see how he develop his toned athletic figure and and how this regimen be part of the normal routine every weekend before the true mind game with his victim begin . if he be so well fit and and spends such time develop himself for the extracurricular activity which follow his regimen and how could he suffer the fate which follow his finalize the deal with maria at the end when she stop resist his advance . maria and he would later admit and be the first he actually kidnap while others from the past and call girl and be pay for their service so that sayer could feel the power of dominate a woman and even if it all a fictitious charade bring about by a deeply troubled individual with an inability to connect with the opposite sex . the spontaneous decision to do so and to take a leap from the norm and cost him more than he could ever know . all this psycho sexual sub text be rather fascinating to see unravel and but dagmar lassander and such a yummy sex kitten and be my reason for enjoy it so . without her and i couldn not have like it as much because she vital a a victim worth strive to obtain . perhaps the film highlight and the delicious dance a lassander and clothe in gauze ( . ) and unravel the wardrobe expose her breast to a jazzy score . it the kind of sexually seductive moment that make your mouth water and forehead sweat . dagmar lassander must have be a joy for fashion designer because she wear those clothes so well . she have this kind of cool and a sophistication and screen presence along with her beauty and seductive power and dagmar transcend the part to create an iconic character which would define her career . even if the film isn not well know ( . i find about through word of mouth ) . the provocative nature of the script and risqué subject matter might not appeal to certain crowd a it deal with sex ( . and pain ) in many different form and the dialogue quite illustrative and elaborative . at time and i couldn not help but chuckle at sayer comment towards an imprisoned maria and regard how he enjoy make woman suffer and and the thrill he get at force them into a type of slavery ( . in an attempt to make the word poetic and it all feel rather hokey ) . but and dagmar be the real reason to see it and and the film and to me and work at it best a a fetish film and a possible male fantasy with this seemingly prim and proper idealist and capture and hold against her will and force into a precarious situation and her fate possibly at the mercy of a complex and possibly dangerous masochist . her submission and and how she react towards his aggressive behavior with her ( . there be time where she unfold to a waver desire to embrace him and unveil a possible attraction towards him which and in itself and might startle some who watch it ) be among the most fascinating highlight of this exploitation feature . my other favorite scene and besides the dance and be the piano concerto with sayer fondle maria a she play a soothing melody .