In order to be accepted into drama school, Gina Stanhope has to be in a successful theatrical production. During a two-week-long residential rehearsal, held in a country house in Devon during a heat wave, she realises the charismatic director is in fact a kinky control freak. Charles Sarazan is determined to make Gina's life difficult, not least by casting her arch rival Persis as the female lead.

Just when it seems that fate is working against her, Gina uncovers a few secrets about Sarazan's shady financial undertaking and his plans to sabotage the production. Gina has some plans of her own, however, and in a highly charged atmosphere of sexual tensions, there are other personnel who are only too happy to help Gina slake her lust and foil Sarazan's selfish intensions.