Welcome to the globe of the fabulously wealthy in London, 1909, where dresses and houses are overwhelmingly opulent, sociable course means everything, and ladies are taught to be nothing more than wives and mothers. Into this globe comes seventeen-year-old Victoria Darling, who wants only to end up being an artist-a extremely difficult dream for a girl.

After Vicky poses nude for her illicit art class, she is expelled from her French finishing school. Shamed and scandalized, her parents try to marry her off towards the rich Edmund Carrick-Humphrey. But Vicky provides other things on her mind: her clandestine software towards the Royal College of Artwork; her participation in the suffragette movement; and her growing attraction to a working-class youngster who could be her muse-or may be the like of her existence. As the globe of debutante balls, corsets, and high culture commitments closes in around her, Vicky must figure out: the amount of is she willing to sacrifice to pursue her dreams?