The daughter of a talented but dissolute artist, Fenela Prentice, is accustomed to her father constantly bringing home either a new wife or a new mistress. As the eldest of the children, she has to shoulder all the worries about the family. And when her father’s next mistress brings shame on their family and even turns out to be the wife of a man with whom Fenela herself is in love, she has no choice but to marry an unloved but noble man, the only one who can help her. And only after some time Fenela discovers how favorable fate was to her.