Bella invited her new boyfriend, Damar, to come to her room in a women-only boarding house for the first time. Many things happened on that day, privately.

An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer.

In squeaky-clean New York at the turn of the century, playboy Charlie Hill falls so much in love that he can walk on air. The object of his affections is beautiful Angela Bonfils, a mission house worker in the Bowery. He promises to reform his dissolute life, even trying to do an honest day's work.

When the man who seduced the famous painter Otoko as a teenager--and then wrote a bestselling novel about it--reappears in her life, her pupil--and lesbian lover--hatches a plot to destroy the man and his family.