When English rose Stella Shawn wins a coveted scholarship to Castle Kernece, Scotland's sternest training teacher, she plans to fulfil her ambition of becoming a school mistress. More than just a college, Kernace is a way of life: a fierce and perverse arena of dominant and submissive females where punishments are frequent and taken 'on the bare'. She meets the enigmatic headmistress, Miss Dancer, the insatiable Morag, the reared Bull, and the beautiful Italion, Albert; all adepts of discipline. Only by her own total submission to the rules can Stella learn to dominate.