On a late 19th-century estate, a celebration of wine and beer lets loose inhibitions…and inner passions. Jean (Mullan), the Count’s footman, takes the advances of the Count’s daughter (Burrows) too far with a scandalous encounter in the kitchen.
And over one night, it becomes clear that these two lost souls desperately need each other in order to escape the confines – and trappings – of their lives.
But can a servant support a noblewoman, who, without her father’s money, is no more privileged than he?