After the death of her father, Melita Cranley was left alone in the whole world - defenseless, ruined, at the mercy of an envious stepmother, and she took care to send the fragile golden-haired goddess as far as possible - to Martinique, as the governess of the little daughter of the young widower Etienne de Wesson. Etienne and Melita realized that they were made for each other at the very first moment of their meeting... but a dangerous rival stood between the lovers - Madame Boisset, a woman who held de Wesson's fate in her cruel hands...