After an elaborate application process, Empress Elisabeth of Austria hires Countess Irma as her new lady-in-waiting and takes her to her summer residence on Corfu. As the two women become closer there, this soon leads to tensions back in Vienna.

Caught between the conservative values of his homeland and the liberal freedoms of his new American life, Aziz, an immigrant from a homophobic country, struggles to navigate his identity in a world that demands he choose between two conflicting cultures.