Separated from her first lover, the daring adventurer Dawson, the beautiful Creole Kathleen Beauregard was forced to marry the wealthy planter Hunter. It was not immediately possible for the sensitive, gentle husband to heal the beauty’s spiritual wounds and awaken in her love – still timid and uncertain. But now, when Kathleen received the news of her husband’s death on the fields of the Civil War, and the magically attractive Dawson reappeared in her life, what should she do, what should she decide on?..