One woman is hired to deceive a wealthy bachelorette in order to swindle her out of her fortune, but in "The Handmaiden," things don't go as planned, and a steamy love affair begins in an unexpected way. The Korean film has so many twists and turns as the wealthy young woman plots schemes of her own. She and the woman hired to rip her off soon turn on the person who orchestrated the whole plot, setting him up to be destroyed. Amid it all, these two realise that not only do they not want to be against each other, but perhaps there's more there between them than they thought.