Parents sometimes have a despotic desire to arrange the lives of their adult children at their own discretion. Sometimes this is difficult to resist, because the son or daughter owes them everything in the world. This happened with Jane Theron, whom her mother intended to marry at all costs, and not to anyone, but to a rich old man. But Jane is in love, and she faces a dilemma with all merciless clarity: a carefree, prosperous life or love? What will she prefer?..