 The Madame arrived at Madeira Island at 1874, searching a better climate for her health problems, and the hotel was renamed on her honour. The luxury and tranquillity of the "Bon Séjour" had imposed his style across the vitorian Europe, but nowadays guests are rarefying due to the pre war tension. Nevertheless, no one seems to believe that the war is about to begin, and the succession of the hotel property appears as a much more prominent problem to handle with. Life at the "Bon Séjour" runs smoothly and calmly, with all his peculiar characters and moods # the governess Felismina and her grandson Fernando, Madalena, the orphan housemaid, Mister Henri, almost as old as the hotel, the notary and the doctor, the few guests... But Madame s nephew is expected soon in a steam liner from Lisbon, and everything is going to change...