Paris, 1812: The Marquis De Sade's daughter Juliette and the Count Alain de Soissons have now been married since eight years and Juliette seems to have found her balance as a wife and as a writer, but she will have to deal with her past that presents itself first through the figure of Claude Donatien de Sade, the eldest son of the Marquis de Sade and his first marriage and then through the figure of Charles Quesnet, the son of Constance Quesnet, mother of Juliette and her first husband. To undermine the fragile balance of Juliette is the discovery that her father has found a lover than sixty years his junior in the Madeleine, a laundress who works in the nursing home at Charenton. Meanwhile, is entrusted to Alain a sensitive military mission, but first his ship is caught in a storm and then is attacked by the British. The sailors of the ship disappear Alain see the waves and Juliette is confident of being widowed just 23 years old.