A typically Victorian wedding that touched London society: Juliet Wentworth, a young widow with children, married the most decent gentleman, Richard Harper. She left, of course, out of convenience, deep mutual respect and without a shadow of love - all decorum was carefully observed. People in the world don’t even suspect what’s going on in the lives of the newlyweds. Richard, secretly madly in love with his own wife, cherishes insidious plans to seduce her right on the marital bed and awaken reciprocal feelings. Juliet, despising herself, succumbs more and more to his charm and loses her head more and more... And her violent offspring, obsessed with the goal of ruining their stepfather's life, are inexhaustible in funny and malicious tricks!..