Five years in the making, his commercial feature debut tells the story of Ira, a woman once described in the press as ‘Europe’s most perverted dominatrix’.

As Antwerp’s Mistress Lucrezia, she was without doubt one of Europe’s most famous — and extreme — dominas.

But in 2010 her world was turned upside down by the death at her dungeon of a high-profile British client. She was arrested, locked up and subjected to scandalous treatment by the tabloid press.

Eventually she was freed without charge and spent time travelling around Europe before moving to the Indian coastal state of Goa, where she currently lives.

Cavanagh’s friendship with Ira, plus fetish scene associations going back a long way, guarantee that this