Repressed emotions and secrets associated with a young man cast a shadow over the house of Flantro, an aristocratic widow with two daughters from different marriages. To banish them, Flantro decides to offer him the hand of her elder daughter in marriage, hoping in this way to keep him near her and away from her younger daughter, who she envies. However, her actions have unintended consequences and faced with no way out, she chooses an extreme and painful solution