Two ladies, mother and daughter, live on the sunny Portuguese coast. Throughout their entire lives, they have had more than enough money to lead "the good life": no work and lots of pleasures. We meet them soon after the death of the husband and father, when all their wealth has run out. A jet set upper-class life is substituted by unpaid bills and constant fear of not being able to pay the rent. The mother gets a Danish pension, but that is far from enough to cover the monthly expenses of two grown women who are used to having all the money they need...