Lace Group

This is based on the hugely successful S&M novel that has been read by millions of people worldwide. The author Pauline Reage tells the story of a beautiful young woman known only as 'O' who's taken by her boyfriend Rene to a chateau just outside Paris. There 'O' is trained in bondage and sexual perversion. 'O' is deeply in love with Rene and in order to prove her love she allows herself to be subjected to all kinds of degradation and abuse. Finally, Rene discharges a personal debt by tranferring possession of 'O' to his stepbrother, Sir Stephen.

In the film which was produced in 1975, Just Jaeckin the director (who also directed Emmanuelle) explores the cruel world in which 'O' finds herself. A world of sado-masochism and kinky and bizarre sexual practices

The Film which was refused certificaton when it was originally submitted, has now been passed uncut by the British Board of Film Classification.