A chance meeting on the way to Paris with a young novice who had escaped from the monastery radically changed the fate of the famous Duke of Melincourt. To help the girl, who is being pursued by the cardinal himself, the Duke passes her off first as his page, then as his pupil. He is intrigued by the secrets that surround this young beauty, but when young Ame is kidnapped from him and her life is in danger, the Duke realizes how dear she is to him...