She loves him, she would like to become his wife and knows that he dreams of the same thing, but she is constrained by fear. This fear is her past, the dark thing that happened to her, a very young girl, far from London... And when it seems to her that she has finally freed herself from the power of memories, escaped from their fetters, when she is ready to surrender to her feelings, the black winds of the past burst into her life, threatening to overturn everything, uproot the first shoots of happiness...