Henry Truscott is a dissipated take even by the standards of the late eighteenth century. When his ey catches the beautiful Eloise he expects either to be thrashed by her footmen & dumped in a ditch or to take his full pleasure in her magnificent curves. he gets more than he had anticipated, in every way, trading seduction & revene & finally using her & her maids in an increasingly perverse manner as they are pursued across France by bloodthirsty revolutionaries.