HARD. A gastarbeiter is a Russian migrant worker doing house and garden work in Western Europe. Since money is badly needed, he can agree to unprovoked punishment being allowed in his contract. His first cash comes when he submits his ass to whipping, cropping and caning in his employer's garden. Future thrashing will be much harder and demonstration is given the next day when ten hard strokes of 16 painful instruments crush his beleaguered ass. A world of suffering unlike anything he has known has begun.