When school senior Anastasia Steele steps in for her sick roommate to interview outstanding businessman Christian Gray for his or her campus paper, little does she understand the trail her life will take. Christian, as enigmatic as he's wealthy and highly effective, finds himself unusually drawn to Ana, and she or he to him. Although sexually inexperienced, Ana plunges headlong into an affair -- and learns that Christian's true sexual proclivities push the boundaries of ache and pleasure.