A woman suffers from an unusual illness caused by a flower growing in her lungs.
The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily-wedded Mary Haines finds her marriage in trouble when shop girl Crystal Allen gets her hooks into Mary's man.
A young man spurs romance and helps his friend and himself go through the struggles of their ordinary life in Denmark.
