Set in the countryside around Boston in the mid nineteenth century, The Europeans juxtaposes gay sophistication of two continental cousins with the moral solidity of their provincial counterparts. When feckless, charming Felix Young and his sister Eugenia, the Baroness Munster, descend on their well-to-do, God-fearing New England cousins, the Wentworths, the Europeans hope to gain much from their American experience. Throughout, both parties are confronted by an attitude of life beyond their experience or faith.
