一个富有的寡妇爱上了一个好色的侯爵,但两人的爱情却急转向下,于是她决定在一名年轻的女子的帮助下实施报复Madam de La Pommeraye, a young widow removed from the world, assigns to the court of the marquis des Arcis, licentious notorious. After a few years of a happiness without flaw, she discovers that the Marquis is tired of their union. Madly in Love and terribly injured, she decides to take revenge on him with the complicity of Mademoiselle de Joncquières and its mother.