Juliet McGowan is forced to hide from her cruel husband, to whom she was married against her will. Dressed as a young man, she wanders around harsh, cold England, dreaming of hot countries where she was once so happy with her father. The girl is already losing hope when she suddenly meets a strange married couple on her way, in which the wife is too similar to a man, and the husband seems to Juliet to be the most dangerous person she has ever known.