1911 Love is in the air. Despite one inconvenient circumstance - she looks very much like her own horse - Lady Richenda Stapleford gets married. Efemia Martins also accepted the advances of one of her admirers, although no one in the master’s part of the house is interested in this. But true love does not recognize the division into servants and masters... Efemia is now awarded the high title of housekeeper. When one of the guests dies at a wedding reception, she is forced to take charge of the investigation. As always, she has at her disposal only her own sharp mind, virtue and an invariable piercing cry, which will come to her aid more than once in a situation that becomes more and more terrible...