Jamie Muhoberac

In New York City's gritty East Village, a group of bohemians strive for success and acceptance while enduring the obstacles of poverty, illness and the AIDS epidemic.

Recorded at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, April 9th, 1996. 1 Stone Free (Jimi Hendrix) 3:41 2 Prayer For The Dying (Gus Isidore, Seal) 3:46 3 Future Love Paradise 5:14 4 Blues In E 4:27 5 Crazy 5:13 6 Quicksand (David Bowie) 5:02 7 Kiss From A Rose 4:34 8 Violet 5:24 9 Deep Water 3:31 10 Don't Cry 3:16

Nick Broomfield and a documentary crew visit Pandora's Box, an up-scale house of bondage on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, where clients pay $175 an hour to be subservient to mistresses. Mistresses talk about their craft; a few clients, usually masked, are interviewed as well. Then, the camera watches sessions organized around fetishes: rubber, wrestling, corporal punishment, masochism, and infantilism. Mistress Raven, the owner of Pandora's Box, explains that pain need not be part of the subservient experience: it is, at its root, a transfer of power. After their session has ended, clients talk about how drained, relaxed, relieved, and at peace they are.