Lili’s summer holidays take an unexpected turn when her mother pressures her to ask Dorsday, a family friend, for money to keep her father out of prison. It’s not only her dignity she might lose, but every certainty she once had. Young Lili is forced into a most unpleasant situation by her mother: to save the family from certain ruin, Lili should succumb to the desires of a family friend, an art dealer, who would give them all the money they need – if he can look at Lili in the nude for fifteen minutes. What is more precious: a family’s good name or one woman’s convictions?