Court life was always accompanied by secrets, intrigues, and rumors. And sometimes there are paradoxes, as in the fate of the Duke of Lancaster, who received the right to the Castilian throne, which has yet to be won. The plans of his associate, the brave knight Sir Gilbert Wolfold, are also connected with the distant, hot Castile, but for now in his native England he is ordered to get married. The future wife, Lady Valerie, was not happy in her first marriage and believes that this happens to everyone. Her husband was rude and cruel to her, nevertheless Valerie regrets that she does not have children. Submissive and detached, Lady Valerie touched the heart of Sir Gilbert, he tries to get closer to the young widow and understand her unusual character. Are these two people capable of loving each other? And what unites them, besides dark secrets and ghostly dreams?