Lee Holloway(玛吉·吉伦哈尔 Maggie Gyllenhaal 饰)生活在一个不和谐的家庭里,从小就有“自毁”的行为,在精神治疗中心治疗一段时间回到家后,她要重新融入正常人的生活。于是她学习了打字,在一家律师事务所找到了一份打字员的工作。一开始,Lee打字出现了很多毛病,被她的雇主E. Edward Grey(詹姆斯·斯派德 James Spader 饰)发现,Grey把Lee叫到了他的办公室,为了让Lee深刻记得她的错误,他让Lee趴在书桌上,然后他开始拿起皮鞭对她进行性虐待。久而久之,两人产生了一种奇妙的情感,这也从另一方面减弱了Lee的“自毁”倾向。Lee爱上了Grey,然而Grey却羞于让人知道他的怪癖,于是他解雇了Lee。Lee的男友Peter(杰瑞米·戴维斯 Jeremy Davies 饰)向她求婚,她答应了,然而在婚礼当天,她却逃到了Grey的办公室.....。Katherine of Alexandria, brought up as a nomad and living in the desert, was aged just 11 when Emperor Maxentius saw her whilst out on patrol. Consumed by her beauty, impudence and uncanny talent for languages, he abducted the child, killing her family. The slaughter was witnessed by her young friend, Constantine, who would later become Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. He never lost hope of finding Katherine. As a young woman, Katherine refused to submit to Maxentius' offers of marriage and she continually denounced his brutal enforcement of pagan religion upon the masses. Still obsessed with her beauty, Maxentius brought Katherine before 50 of Rome's finest scholars in an open court in Alexandria, where she eloquently demolished their arguments. When Constantine learned of Katherine's whereabouts and imprisonment at the hands of Maxentius, he led his army from York in a desperate bid to save her.。