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Paris, 1878: Following death of the daddy from overwork, the three truck Goethem sisters find their lives upended. Without their father's wages, and with what little their mother earns as a laundress disappearing down the absinthe bottle, eviction using their company solitary boarding room seems imminent. With few options for work designed for a girl, bookish 14-year-old Marie and her youthful sister Charlotte are dispatched to the Paris Opera, where for a scant seven francs weekly, the girls will learn to enter into its famous ballet. Their aged sister, obstinate and insolent 17-year-old Antoinette, dismissed from the ballet, confirms herself launched in to the orbit of Émile Zola and the influence of his notorious naturalist masterpiece L'Assommoir - and in to the arms of a man who risk turning out to be always a murderer. Marie throws herself into party, expecting her natural gift idea and hard work will allow her to escape her circumstances, however the competition to be one of the famous étoiles at whose feet flowers are thrown nightly is fierce, and Marie is compelled to turn elsewhere to generate income. Cripplingly self-conscious about her low-class appearance, she nonetheless confirms herself modeling in the studio of Edgar Degas, where her image will forever be immortalized in his questionable sculpture Little Dancer, Aged 14. Antoinette, in the mean time, descends lower and lower in modern culture and must make the decision between genuine labor as a laundress and the greater profitable avenues open to a young female in the Paris demimonde - that is unless her love for the dangerous Émile Abadie derails her completely. Set at an instant of profound imaginative, social, and societal change, The Painted Ladies is ultimately an account of two exceptional girls rendered exclusively susceptible to the darker impulses of "civilized society". In the long run, each should come to understand that her specific salvation, if not success, is situated with the other.
