The streets of Paris smell of death, theyve just beheaded Marie Antoinette. In there wanders her nanny, Lalla, until she finds a tavern where she gets shelter in exchange for caring for a patient. On this new destination, decides to write a long letter in which she tells all the secrets of the French court since she began working as a nanny for Marie Antoinette, future queen of France and wife of Louis XVI, their political influence, their tastes, their eccentricities, until her death on October 16, 1793.