The Kingdom

Quentin, a thirty-four-year-old tech entrepreneur, sells his artificial intelligence company for billions and retires with his wife Vanessa to the Czech countryside. They buy a crumbling old house in the quiet village of Cerná, directly across from a decaying castle with a strange past. The castle once housed the Other World Kingdom (OWK), a real-life femdom "empire" where women ruled over submissive men.
Though the OWK collapsed years ago, new tenants soon arrive-an alluring group of dominant women determined to revive the estate as a BDSM sanctuary. Quentin and Vanessa are quickly drawn into the orbit of these enigmatic neighbors. Vanessa, a gifted artist finally free to pursue her passions, is commissioned to create murals for the castle's chambers-murals depicting goddesses, dominatrixes, and their willing slaves.
Through her work, she becomes close with Marketa, a striking Czech domme whose teasing charm unsettles and excites Quentin. While Quentin struggles with writer's block, his curiosity about the castle grows. Slowly, he and Vanessa are introduced to its community of dominatrixes and submissives, including Diana, the regal "Queen" of the domain, and her chastity-bound husband Mark. The couple's dinners, conversations, and encounters expose Quentin to a world where traditional gender roles are inverted, power is eroticized, and submission is liberation.
At first an amused outsider, Quentin finds himself fascinated-and aroused-by what he sees. Harmless flirtation and voyeuristic encounters with Marketa spiral into shared fantasies, playful seductions, and moments of experimentation that challenge his own sense of masculinity. Vanessa, intrigued but pragmatic, balances her new friendships with loyalty to her husband, though she, too, becomes curious about dominance and control.
As the castle reopens, Quentin is pulled deeper into its orbit. His technological expertise is enlisted to help modernize the OWK's marketing and guest experiences, intertwining his skills with the empire's revival. What began as a dream of peaceful retirement becomes an unexpected adventure into taboo erotic realms, where love, trust, temptation, and surrender collide. The Kingdom blends domestic drama, erotic fantasy, and cultural discovery.
It is both a provocative story of a couple navigating sexual frontiers together and a meditation on power, devotion, and the unexpected places desire can lead.