A young French Huguenot nobleman, Augustin Rousseau, accidentally witnesses the birth of a peasant girl, Margarita, and seventeen years later falls in love with her. Hiding from persecution by Catholics, he leaves her forever. Their great love illuminates the life of their daughter Margarita. Jasmine, her granddaughters Violetta and great-granddaughters Rose. The magic circle of love closes one hundred and fifty years later, when Augustin's descendant, the Englishman Richard Easterton, falls in love with young Rose. The fates of these women, whose names coincide with the names of flowers, are strangely intertwined with the fates of three kings from the Bourbon dynasty, with the beautiful and tragic history of France during the 17th–18th centuries.