Bob Plumose is a life coach whose own life is out of control. After teaching his clients all day about how to solve their short-term crises, Bob comes home to one he can�t fix: a shoplifting daughter, a hip hop thug son, and Jo, a wife who thinks of him as added income and not much else. One day Jo lays it on the line that Bob isn�t pulling his weight anymore. She demands that he attend a seminar at The Arena, an EST-clone for losers who crave empowerment.  A female instructor invites Bob to a special after-party �for the elite.� Feeling a strong sexual vibe, Bob stumbles into an enticement with Charisma Curry, an artist/seductress who quickly takes him to bed. But he doesn�t have sex as he knows it. What Charisma does literally takes his breath away � she introduces Bob to �Breath Play,� a game of denying oxygen for sexual pleasure.
 
Frightened, guilty, but almost immediately addicted to this game, Bob suddenly has a secret life in a secret world of other players. It�s not depravity that obsesses him but the discovery of being suspended between worlds, truth and lies, life and death. Bob�s secret turns sinister when members of the elite of The Arena start dying off. Bob tries to blow the whistle, but the police won�t listen.  Bob has no one to turn to and nowhere to go � a dangerous predicament once he discovers that he�s about to be the next casualty.