Set among the glittering chandeliers and marble salons of Paris, Dangerous Liaisons exposes the seedy reality of the rarefied microcosm of the old French aristocracy. This is a society in which the most innocent and noble-minded become the sexual prey of a couple of bored and decadent ex-lovers, the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, having both ice-cold revenge and sizzling seduction on their minds. The story unfolds through a series of letters written by the idle rich, as each missive exposes plots and counterplots until sexual corruption and the desire for vengeance propels the story to its tragic ending.