The talented artist Kate was not destined to receive recognition in Victorian England, because, according to public ideas, only a man could be a creator. After many shocks, fate gives her only one lucky chance: the girl meets the Norman aristocrat, Baron de Sainteville, and soon he already admires her talent. But the artist is repulsed by the cruelty and arrogance of the baron, accustomed to unquestioning submission. How will the confrontation between two strong natures end?