Esme Squalor is a fierce and jealous lesbian who radiates confidence and style wherever she goes. She and her young wife had just arrived in France for honeymoon, looking forward to a romantic getaway.
However, their holiday took an unexpected turn when they ran into VFD volunteer, the traitor Beatrice Baudelaire, in a fancy restaurant. Beatrice had been missing for several months, and it soon became clear that she and her new husband Bertrand Baudelaire were traveling to start a new life.