In the future of 2099, the Theatre of Pain is a clandestine organization dedicated to fulfilling sadomasochistic desires for their clientele, as well as other fetishes. Their offerings include typical slave trading and blood sports, to the more exotic like empathically harvesting pain and horror from victims and transmitting it to clientele as a "high". Brimstone Love and his Controllers consider themselves artists of suffering, and claim to have been active for centuries.