
The movie tells about the lives of two sisters: innocent and naive Justine and pragmatic Juliette. After the death of their parents, the girls are thrown out of the convent where they studied, with a hundred crowns in their pockets and a blessing.
Juliette immediately goes to a prestigious Parisian brothel to start climbing the ladder of success, and Justine learns that the world is not ideal at all, and that with her "piety" and innocence to do in it, in fact, nothing to do, because her entire independent life turns into a series of cruel deception, humiliation, persecution and torture.