Inventor Phineas Burke never had time to fall in love - all his leisure was occupied by the project of an unprecedented “horseless carriage”. However, a meeting with the young and beautiful widow Lady Alexandra Morley radically changed his fate. For the first time, Phineas felt not like a bookish scholar, but, first of all, a man, obsessed with passion for a woman, without whom he cannot imagine his existence! Phineas is accustomed to taking the shortest route to his goal, and his goal from now on is to quickly marry Lady Alexandra. However, the very first kiss that he takes from the lips of this seductive beauty makes him believe: life without passion and tenderness is impossible!..