Jenny is completely happy here, on a remote island in the Adriatic Sea, next to her adored father, a famous artist. Everything in the girl’s life is going well: her wedding with John, a future doctor and the only son of a prosperous doctor from Harley Street, is just around the corner. Young people have loved each other since childhood. But early on a sunny morning, a tall, broad-shouldered, handsome man came down from a large steamer onto the pier and introduced himself to Jenny as a writer...