The young heroes of the novel - Alice Lighton and Philip Hamilton - are connected by sublime passionate love, but belong to different political factions. Their destinies develop in England in the 17th century during the years of the first bourgeois revolution, the republican regime of Oliver Cromwell, irreconcilable clashes between royalists and Puritans, during the years of the reaction of the monarchy after the execution of the king and the flight into exile of his heir. Difficult events that separate lovers help them maintain the freshness of their feelings, remain true to their ancestral honor and the voice of reason.