保罗(史蒂夫·库根 Steve Coogan 饰)从小就爱好一切和美相关的东西,尤其是美女,他也深知没有男人可以经得起美女的诱惑这一道理,因此早早涉足情色业,从经营专门面向绅士提供服务的俱乐部开始,一步一步打造自己的品牌,没过多久,保罗的店便占据了整个街区,他亦凭此成为了全英国最富有的人之一。 让(安娜·弗莱尔 Anna Friel 饰)是保罗的妻子,同时亦是一名脱衣舞演员,两人即是伴侣又是合作伙伴,彼此之间合作无间。之后,保罗遇到了自己的缪斯女神菲奥娜(塔姆欣·伊格顿 Tamsin Egerton 饰),沉迷在她的美貌和性感之中。让给保罗生了一个女儿取名为黛比(伊莫珍·波茨 Imogen Poots 饰),保罗将黛比视为掌上明珠,准备将自己的全部财产交给她来继承。After the untimely death of his daughter, Paul Raymond reflects on his life. Rising from a mind-reading act, Raymond grew to have a fabulously successful career as an erotica magnate that would make him the richest man in Britain. However, for all his material success, Paul's appetites mess up his personal life, such as alienating his wife with his philandering. Furthermore, even as he challenged his society's sexual mores, Paul's relationship with his daughter proves troublingly problematic as she came of age. While trying to be the best father he could, Paul gradually comes to realize that his proclivities have impoverished him in ways that mere money cannot address.