The movie's opening piano music fades away and as the last title screen clears. We see a young woman sitting quietly at her dressing table. She is surrounded by three full suitcases. The camera zooms in we see that she is reading a handwritten book, a diary. The camera zooms in further and we see a fresh tear fall on to the right-hand page. It rolls slowly down causing some ink to run. In the 'voice over' we hear her reading back her a diary entry...
"September the thirteenth, second punishment this week. Richard commanded me to be naked in the bedroom at ten o'clock. Of course I was there on time standing in the corner. As usual, I had to wait. I could hear the TV on downstairs. I am supposed to think of my crimes, my carelessness and my provoking behavior. But all I can I think of is his hand crashing down on my exposed bottom. My mind keeps 'wondering' at his single minded intent. It is a lovely dream. At last then he was there, commanding me to 'get over his knee' as though I was the late one. I bent over his knee and he positioned me firmly. First came the warming swats, then the real smacks and then the hard blows. Oh god it's wonderful. To struggle, to protest and all in vain. Relentless blows, light 'round about' slaps, then hard spanks on my 'sweet spot'. Oh the pain felt so good, pushing through me, controlling my emotions. He was very thorough, he went on and on until I thought I would die. He left me on the bed to recover in the dark. Waiting in the dark was strange, thoughts wandering, but when he returned with his cock all hard, oh..."
The reading stops as Jasmine (for that is the young woman's name), puts her head down on her hands and weeps again...
[out loud] "Oh god, I must pull myself together."
She wipes her eyes and picks up the ink pen. Her 'voice over' starts again as the pen touches the paper...
"November twenty sixth. Dear Diary, how could I be so stupid? It's all over between us. Richard has told me - 'no more punishment spankings'. He says that 'I like them too much' and that they 'no longer have any purpose'. Dear diary, that is not the worst of it. Richard, my only lover, whom I gave myself to as his possession just six months ago, and who has been spanking me so beautifully for justly deserved punishments all this while, says I must now take what he calls 'hard regulation'. He said I must not enjoy my punishments. Why not? They are still punishments. I did protest to him that he had promised me, before my first (and oh so wonderfully humiliating) spanking, that he would never hurt me in 'bad way' (which he hasn't dear diary, as you know). He just smiled and said that 'if I thought back, I would remember that what he had promised that, his SPANKINGS would never hurt me in a bad way'. And also, I would also remember that I had promised to obey him. He put special emphasis on the words 'spanking' and 'obey'. Well diary, I did search my memory and I remembered yes indeed, that was what he said, and I admitted as much to his face (well actually I was looking to the floor). And then Richard spoke these words to me...
'Jasmine, possession of mine, I command you to present yourself, in a naked condition, to me in our bedchamber at ten o'clock. You will be ready and willing to take ten strokes of the cane. This cane.' And he showed me a long thin cane. As you can imagine, I turned to jelly.
'It will be plain to you now, that my promise said nothing about the my use of what implements I might use to punish you. And I know that you know that you have failed to keep your promise to respect me, by repeatedly disobeying my direct requests. And so it pains my to say this but, if you fail to attend the appointment, you will be ready to vacate my house by nine o'clock tomorrow morning. Do you understand?'
Well I answered 'Yes Sir', but then dear dairy, I blurted out 'Please forgive me, but I couldn't, I just couldn't take it, not the cane' and I turned and rushed up here, to pack. So now you know everything. What shall I do 'dear and precious' diary? Please help me."
We see the girl stare at the diary for a full minute. And we see her slowly close the book. She looks up into the mirror. She takes a tissue and wipes her eyes. She looks again. She reaches down into a shoulder bag and pulls out some make-up items which she places on the dressing table. She cleans her face and re-applies her make-up.
The camera pans away and looks round the room, when it returns she is still taking great care with her task. The camera pans away again. We see the bags and a four poster bed with a rich red counterpane. When the camera returns a second time, we see Jasmine removing clothes from one of the suitcases and carefully putting them back in the wardrobe. The camera pans around a third time, piano music plays in the background and as it returns we see Jasmine unbuttoning her dress. We watch her remove all her clothes and fold them on a chair, we catch a glimpse of empty suitcases. Now she is sitting at her dressing table naked. Her diary is open again...
"Dear Diary, I find that I must obey Richard. The feeling is very strong within me, I am his possession, and possessions cannot disobey. He has guided me well this last six months - they been the happiest months of my life. If he thinks I need 'hard regulation' then I do need it. It must be very annoying for him when I keep making silly mistakes and provocations to earn a spanking. He has warned me about this childish behavior twice. I don't know how I will take the cane, but I know I must. Love Jasmine."
We see her close the diary and then glance at small silver clock. It is ten to ten. She rises then walks softly to the only bare corner in the room and stands in it. She clasps her hands behind her back. Her head is lowered. The camera withdraws slowly losing focus before cutting to see a bright TV with the sound on low. We can hear Richard (we presume) pottering about. We hear Big Ben gongs signalling the ten o'clock come news out of the small TV speaker and we see the familiar face of the newsreader telling us of some crisis somewhere. The camera turns and sees Richard picking up a long cane from the dining table. The camera follows him climbing the stairs. As Richard enters the bedroom the camera halts because Richard closes the door behind him. The camera rests on the wood paneled door. From inside the room small sounds are heard, then...
