Echo is a young actress, living on the coast of Los Angeles, grieving for her father who was swept out to sea. With no true friends, and a troubled relationship with her mother, she seeks solace in strangers. Strangers like Orly, a dominatrix, who moves in across the street. Through this unconventional relationship, Echo tests the boundaries of desire, and discovers her own means to healing.

Permission is a profoundly modern story about sex, power and loneliness. It is about people who turn to the erotic for comfort and cure, searching for an answer to that sacred question: how do I want to be loved?

'Saskia Vogel's writing is beauty in motion' Stylist

'Desire is explored in its rich entirety and complexity, in its intersections with every day life, stress and lingering grief' Times Literary Supplement

'Captivating' Irish Times