In 1901, a splendid estate in one of the cities in the United States. Spoiled sisters Beatrice and Lilian Belacort live a luxurious life, indulging in all the vices available to them. Most of all they love comfort, their beauty, and their family inheritance, as well as cocaine-laced wine and throwing profiteroles at the servants. The family and their closest circle suit them, and their relationships deserve their own soap opera: the father is secretly in sexual servitude to the new maid, an ex-prostitute; the mother is hooked on fashionable morphine; the husbands love not their wives, but each other; and one of the sisters loves her brother.