XIX century, Civil War between North and South in the USA. The heroine of the novel, Lorena Selby, has the beauty, intelligence and courage of Scarlett O'Hara. But she is unlucky in love. Her husband was a narrow-minded, greedy and voluptuous man. Lorena devotes herself completely to her work: the huge Selby plantation is on her shoulders. Lorena submitted to fate and no longer dreamed of happiness. But it came with the advance troops of General Sherman's Yankees. Who would have thought that a proud, rich southerner would find her love in her enemy, Yankee Major Dan Carroll?!