Twenty-year-old Dani is desperate to overcome her demons leave her dead-end job and return to her hard-won place at university. Using her limited earnings she decides to start seeing a psychotherapist. Richard Goode is educated sophisticated and worldly - everything Dani aspires to be. As he intuitively unpicks her self-loathing Dani assumes the fantasies she's developing about him live only in her head. That is until things take a shocking turn . . . Descending into a maelstrom of twisted desire manipulation and mistrust the power struggle between Dani and Richard escalates until she's forced to make a decision she never would have anticipated.