When Ottile Duvier inherits the family home in the fashionable Garden district of New Orleans, it's the ideal opportunity to set her life on a different course and flee from her demanding aristocratic English boyfriend. However, Ottilie arrives in New Orleans to find that her inheritance has been leased to one Helmut von Straffen - a decadent German, known for his notorious Mardi Gras parties. Determined to claim what is righfully hers, Ottilie challenges von Straffen - but ends up being lured into strange games in steamy locations.