This is an amazing story of love and exciting adventures that unfold against the backdrop of authentically described events from the life of the Indian people under English rule in the 18th century. Scenes of jealousy and tender declarations of love, frenzied passion and touching farewells, happy meetings and tragic endings in the luxurious palaces of the maharajas, impenetrable jungles, and nomadic tents immerse the reader in a world of exotic feelings and oriental bliss. The relationships between men and women of different nationalities, classes, and positions in society add particular piquancy.

Rahu, a half-breed orphan, was raised by a Brahmin who did not have time to provide the boy with a comfortable future. As a result of intrigue and deceit, the young man had to become the leader of outcast robbers. One day he managed to provide an extremely important service to the English Governor-General of India Warren Hastings, and he kept the young man with him under the name of Captain Harry Sindham. Years passed, full of dangers and exploits, betrayals and anxieties... Rahu-Sindham fell in love with the governor's adopted daughter Margarita, who became a real beauty, a bride whom her father agreed to marry only to a peer of England. But Margarita reciprocates the feelings of the rootless Rahu. Hastings sets a condition for the lovers...