I lejonets tecken (1976)

The year is 1934. Sisters Rosa and Soffy cannot get their book, The Almost Royal Family, published; it lacks the sex appeal that readers are looking for. They decide to throw caution to the wind and write a tell-all memoir, titled In the Sign of the Lion, under the nom de plume "Toni Bram", the real name of their straitlaced nephew. In the memoir Rosa and Soffy relate their years as young women in service, together with their sister Yrsa, to the affably roguish Count Johann. Count Hubert, an intolerant prude, has inherited his cousin Johann's estate, Boholm Castle, and is shocked to learn that he may be tainted by the old ladies' recollections - for his youthful sins have not been overlooked in the book. Naturally, Toni, as the presumed author of his aunts' wildly popular erotic novel, is soon up to his eyeballs in trouble - and the maniacal Count Hubert is determined to bury the book that could ruin him.