Exquisite, calculating, and funny, enthusiastic, Becky is the daughter of a starving English artist and a French chorus girl. She yearns for a more glamorous life than her birthright promises and resolves to conquer English society by any means possible. A ascension in to the heights of society is just simply inadequate. Therefore Becky finds a patron in the powerful Marquess of Steyne whose whims enable Becky to realise her fantasies. But is the cost excessive for her?