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?