Young Donella, returning home from the monastery boarding house, found out that her cruel stepfather had already decided on her marriage to a rich old man, and she fled in despair. A whim of fate brought the girl to the troupe of actors - and to the estate of Count Huntington. The noble “patron of the arts,” accustomed to the easy availability of actresses, intended to make Donella his mistress, but the resistance of the terrified beauty inspired him with the suspicion that she was not who she claimed to be...