Roxanne Powell, a Hollywood starlet who dreams of becoming a big star, agrees to go to a screen test in the jungle of civil war-torn Malaya. A meeting with Llewelyn Kirk, the owner of a rubber plantation who has lost all his loved ones, forces her to reconsider her usual views on life. The author managed to vividly and imaginatively show how a woman solves one of the main tasks of representatives of the fair half of humanity - choosing a reliable life partner. What was Roxanne Powell's choice? Why did she do it? Was I wrong in my decision? The answers to these questions are on the pages of the novel offered to readers.