A group of students go on an excursion in the country to a castle for a lab course in sex education. Once there, they are subject to the whims of the owners of the castle.

An intimate family portrait of four hapless but resilient women and the bittersweet lessons they learn in keeping up with the hectic demands of their individual neuroses. Each of the women seeks redemption in her own haphazard way, but whatever salvation they find is illusory and short-lived.