The famous senator Col Bovington learns of his fatal illness. All his life he looked after his beloved daughter Emmiline, in whom he doted. And now Kol asks Pietro Morelli, an old friend, to take care of Emmiline and marry her. A confirmed bachelor and lover of women, Pietro is shocked by such a request. However, he cannot refuse his older friend, who has replaced his father. Emmiline and Pietro enter into a fictitious marriage. The girl is not aware of her father’s terrible diagnosis. Pietro takes her to Rome, where she enters university. An attraction arises between young people, developing into a real feeling. But when Emmiline finds out about the true reason for the marriage, her world collapses...