It's 1895. Traded as payment for her aunt's gambling debts, southern belle Vanita is whisked off to a decaying plantation house where Franklin Harte and his curious family are quite happy to receive her. She is to marry Franklin's son, Damon, whose bizarre hobbies and even more bizarre sister are enough to send Vanita's head spinning. Yet, their games of darkly weird and freaky eroticism intrigue her and certainly prove distracting. However, to reclaim her fortune, however, she has to figure a way to escape Franklin's obsessive humiliations.