In October 1913, a group of aristocratic men and women gather for a shooting party at an estate in the heart of the British countryside. Assured and opulent, they move through the elaborate rituals of an Edwardian England country house-party. They dine, they shoot, gossip, flirt and are discreetly adulterous. As members of the privileged elite, they practice an etiquette largely imposed by the late King Edward VII - anything goes, just as long as it does not threaten the established order or offend accepted morality. But times are changing...