Biologist Brenda Everton has excelled in a man's world, often at the expense of her personal life. When she receives an invitation to join the Black Stockings Society - an exclusive, mysterious club founded to help women spice up their love lives - her first impulse is to throw it away. Curiosity, however, gets the better of Brenda and soon she is donning a sequinned pair of black seamless stockings, preparing to meet with her entrepreneur ex-husband Dominic Ayers.