Welcome to Paris, 1913. In the months leading up to the first world war, beautiful young widow Louise Creteur arrives at the Villa Des Roses to work as a chambermaid. But the Villa turns out to be a dilapidated old mansion run by an eccentric British. Inhabiting the crumbling manor is a colorful assortment of add balls, Opportunists and lost souls presided over by Ella, the gossipy cook, who secretly spies on everyone in the house. Louise takes it all in stride until her passionate romance with one of the tenants, a handsome German artist,spirals dangerously out of control.......
