Young Lucy Cartwright becomes the heir to a huge fortune. Her aunt-guardian hates her niece and, trying to “sell” her more profitably, forcibly marries her to the dark, handsome Baron Clair. After the wedding, the newlyweds move to the baron's family estate. Lucy is ready to love her husband, but he avoids her in every possible way. Gradually, fear is mixed with the feeling of loneliness and resentment - Lucy increasingly notices a mysterious female figure in white. Local legend says that this is the ghost of the White Lady, who appears to all the women of the Claire family before death...