To save her unlucky brother from a wild life, Lady Eliza Brentford decides to do the impossible - secretly penetrate the nest of debauchery and get the young rake out of there at any cost. However, this daring trick leads to very unexpected consequences - in an expensive brothel, Eliza meets the famous womanizer of London society, Marquis Griffin Dwight Hadden. What should a virtuous young widow feel about a man who is considered in the world to be a true monster, the personification of vice and debauchery? Hatred and disgust? But passion, alas, has no power over calculation and the laws of the world: Elizabeth becomes entangled in the networks of the charm of an experienced tempter...