The small town of Flowers Valley is quiet and calm - it was here, to her parents’ house, that Fiona Riordan returned after a difficult divorce from her husband. Now she lives alone and grows roses, brushing off unwanted advances and diligently pretending that she is a very strange person. Fiona absolutely does not want to see men in her house, even the peaceful-looking chemist Colin McBright, who has come to evaluate the new variety of roses she has bred. But Colin cannot be fooled so easily: he begins to guess that the image of an eccentric and absent-minded girl is just a mask...