After ending a long unhappy marriage, Maggie, at age 24 seeks solace and understanding by enrolling in a college course in human sexuality. Her desires are awakened with a rush as she learns about pleasures she had never experienced. Maggie embarks on a journey of giving and taking pleasure. Her most intimate feelings are revealed and her every encounter is described in delicious detail. But Maggie always goes further, beyond desire, to intensify the delightful sensations she is so skillfully inducing in her lover's body. Can a beautiful, independent young woman with a high-octane sex drive ever find long-term romance?