Charles the snobbish young scion of an aristocratic family that has seen better days stumbles into the weird yet strangely attractive cabaret world while attempting to trace a former mistress of his father He falls in love with Clémentine an adolescent member of the cabaret family who has created her own tangoobsessed fantasy world amidst the surrounding decadence Charles learning that Clémentine might be his halfsister and thus fearing an incestuous relationship succumbs to the ambiguous seductions of two Machiavellian accomplices a magician and a girl dancer
