Leopold Sacher-Masoch's classic erotic novel is adapted for the screen in this engrossing and erotic film. It is the story of Severin and Wanda, two lovers whose perverse desires are as complex and meaningful as any philosophical system that attempts to describe it. Severin is a well educated man whose wants to become Wanda's slave, not only physically, but mentally and spiritually as well, and his greatest desire is to be abused by his lover. Daringly dramatizing the mental cruelty any romance inflicts on its participants, VENUS IN FURS is an excellent adaptation of the original novel.