When college senior Lexie, an art major, steps in for her sick roommate to interview prominent businessman Christian Grey for their campus paper, little does she realize the path her life will take. Christian, as enigmatic as he is rich and powerful, finds himself strangely drawn to Lexie, and she to him. Though sexually inexperienced, Lexie plunges headlong into an affair -- and learns that Christian's true sexual proclivities push the boundaries of pain and pleasure as he realizes that he's inlove with her