Lisa Lacy is a naive bookish girl and something of a doormat to the more powerful and domineering ladies around her. Lisa's mother Stella and her mentor, Glammy Rothschild, have decided Lisa's fate for her. It is the wish of these overpowering women that Lisa marry Glammy's treasured son Simon, as Lisa herself is made aware from a very young age. Almost from the first their relationship is strained by Simon's erratic behavior. In bits and pieces Lisa...