Cheryl and Laura decide to pool their substantial divorce settlements and buy a hotel. When the women find out that each secretly harbours a desire to run an upmarket bordello, they seize the opportunity to turn St Jude` s into a bawdy fun house for both sexes, where fantasies – from the mild to the increasingly perverse –are indulged. But when attractive, sinister John Dempsey comes on the scene, Cheryl is smitten but Laura less so, convinced he` s out to con them, report them to the authorities or both. Which of the women is right? And will their friendship – and business – survive?