Once in her youth, Mary Claire was recklessly in love with Patrick Maine. But he rejected her, and then got married and went somewhere to Central Africa. Mary tried to forget him, and even got married, but this did not help her uproot Patrick from her heart. She divorced her husband and returned to her home, where she first saw Patrick. What should she do now - suffer all her life because of unrequited love, or try to find a way to part with loneliness forever?..