France, Approximately 1900. Coming from Paris' vibrancy, pert Célestine is secured like a chambermaid in Normandy. In the Lanlaire's villa she experiences the lecherous man of the home and his asexual, unkind and jealous wife. Célestine is set in order to avoid the fate suffered by the cook Marianne who has already secretly killed and one child despairingly realises she is pregnant . The lively maid is fascinated by what the mystical man servant Joseph is up to: he spreads anti semitic leaflets and suggests that she may work with him being a prostitute in Cherbourg...