The mansion that a young couple inherits has been, they find, a center for sophisticated depravity. They get immersed in voyeurism and hedonistic love triangles with their willing servants. Eventually the entire household, including the guests at a formal dinner party, get caught up in the antics.

Brigitte Lahaie plays the Madame of a brothel who is busted by a sincere cop. He makes some sly remark about getting out of the brothel business and setting up a school, so guess what? She sets up a school to teach young women the fine art of pleasing their man!

Young Ursula plays in a tree and ruins her fancy dress. Her elderly mother teaches her a cruel lesson about whether things can ever be mended; what Ursula learns about how to behave may not be what her mother intended.