The life of the romantic shy Julia Archer changes dramatically when her aristocratic grandfather, after many years of silence, suddenly invites her to France, to the Bosset family estate. There she meets her grandfather's adopted son Armand and her Parisian cousins, brother and sister Corday. Gilles Bosset is frail and sick, but as long as the lands of the estate are in the capable hands of the half-breed gypsy Armand, the old man is calm. The Cordays dream of getting their hands on profitable lands, but they are hampered by the old man’s affection for his granddaughter and the passionate feeling that flared up between the gypsy and Julia...