The cheerful English rake-marquis, who was looking only for entertainment in life, could never have imagined that the cheerful and absurd adventure into which he got involved, as they say, “out of boredom,” would truly turn out to be the FINGER OF FATE for him. Because only Fate could push into his arms a poor and painfully proud RUSSIAN PRINCESS, who miraculously escaped from the horrors of the civil war and - it is unclear, out of fear or out of self-esteem - stubbornly unwilling to believe in the sincerity of the feelings of the man who again and again saves her from certain death...