Before the Civil War, a barbaric custom existed in the Southern States: white slave owners brazenly seduced their black slaves and openly cohabited with them, and their wives were forced to patiently turn a blind eye to this. Creole beauty Simone Archer, so as not to share her man with the maids , chooses the only, as it seems to her, way of protest - she decides not to get married at all and stoically keeps this vow. She confidently reflects the obsessive demands of the attractive Arist Bruno, a successful shipowner and wealthy owner of a huge plantation. But is it possible to comprehend the nature of a subtle female nature?! Unexpectedly, Simone passionately falls in love with the stubborn Bruno, a gallant admirer of her virtues. Their romantic rapprochement is hampered only by the fear of disappointment: suddenly Arist is the same cruel and unprincipled follower of primitive traditions, like many of her dissolute plantation neighbors...