The beautiful Marcia Wood, daughter of the Earl of Greatwood, did not have the slightest desire to marry the French Duke Armon de Roux - for even as a child she swore that she would become the wife of only the man whom she loved with all her heart. In turn, the Duke, who had already experienced a tragic marriage once, resolutely refused to tie himself into family ties again. Marcia and Armon entered into a kind of “union of resistance”, but the joint struggle with relatives insisting on the wedding gradually brought them closer and closer - and one day turned into passionate, tender love...