In India, a country of countless treasures and spices, a cruel custom orders that newborn girls be disposed of as unnecessary burdens. But the simple rural beauty Sita, weaving jasmine flowers into her braids, and the young princess Lakshmi Bai, raised from childhood to rule her people fairly and wisely, will remain for centuries! When the free principalities fall one after another under the boot of the British army, Sita will become a brave warrior-bodyguard of her princess, and Lakshmi, having led the sepoy uprising, will turn into a real rebellious queen.