Alva Erkin Smith is one of four daughters of a respectable but impoverished family. Life in Paris and court balls are in the past. To restore the situation, Alva needs to do something. For a woman of that era, the answer is obvious - to find a rich husband. This is the story of the famous Vanderbilt family of millionaires, of which Alva became a part. But not forever. It was she who became famous among the suffragette movement, demanding at the age of 42 a divorce for another man, putting her former prosperous life and the opinion of society at stake.