1920s. Nineteen-year-old English girl Gwen marries Lawrence, the charming owner of a huge tea plantation in Ceylon. Gwen comes to her husband, full of hopes and plans for the future. But life in Ceylon, contrary to expectations, turns out to be not so rosy. Workers' dissatisfaction. Grudges from neighbors. The machinations of the daughter-in-law. But the most important thing is the dark story of the death of Lawrence’s first wife. Why is everyone so diligently hiding the circumstances of her death? Who is buried in an unmarked grave in the forest? Faced with the secrets of her husband's past, Gwen is faced with a difficult choice...A haunting, tender portrait of a woman forced to choose between marital duty and maternal instinct...For the first time in Russian!