Could Fancy Marsh imagine that the new worker whom her husband bought at auction would soon become everything for her - hope, the meaning of life, happiness and pain. Ian Sutherland, a noble Scot and a dangerous rebel, was captured and exiled to a colony in America. But the freedom-loving Scotsman does not intend to accept his fate; he is ready to choose death over slavery. But the fragile, courageous Fancy binds him to her more and more, and the desire to protect her forces Ian to postpone his escape.