Agniya, a naive provincial girl from an impoverished noble family, cannot resist the handsome hussar and, succumbing to persuasion, runs away from her father’s house. The girl realized that she had made a big mistake by trusting the man she fell in love with only when she was left alone in an unfamiliar city, without a means of livelihood. But the wheel of Fortune had only just begun its turn. It will bring Agnia into the society of frivolous women, gamblers and adventurers, into secular drawing rooms and dens, give her freedom and take her to the distant shores of Brazil.