The year is 1934. Sisters Rosa and Soffy cannot get their book, The Almost Royal Family, published since it lacks the necessary sex appeal that readers are looking for. So they decide to throw caution to the wind and write a tell-all memoir, entitled In the Sign of the Lion, under the nom de plume "Toni Bram", their straight-laced nephew. In the memoir Rosa and Soffy relate their years as young women in service, together with their sister Yrsa, to the affably roguish Count Johann. Count Hubert, an intolerant prude, has inherited his cousin Johann's estate, Boholm Castle, and is shocked to learn that he may be tainted by the old ladies' recollections - given that his youthful sins have not been overlooked. Naturally, Toni is soon up to his eyeballs as the presumed author of his aunts' wildly popular erotic novel - and the maniacal Count Hubert is determined to bury the book that could ruin him.