Neither the war hero and promising politician Geoffrey Wentworth, Earl of Stratford, nor Lillian Clairmont, who was passionate about chemistry, thought about love or marriage: he decided to devote his life to the struggle for the happiness of his compatriots, she to science. However, the terrible secret of the death of Lilian's father and the questions, the answers to which Geoffrey may know, lead her to the count's house, and a miracle happens - love, which is above politics, more important than science, completely captures their hearts. But, alas, the happiness of lovers is so short-lived! After all, Lillian soon begins to suspect that Geoffrey himself was involved in the death of her father...