Prosperity and success came at the cost of hard work for Emma Japp. Friends admired her energy and temperament; her enemies called her a calculating careerist. Emma firmly understood that she should never rely on a man for anything, but one day fate brought her together with Roy Baccardi. A rich aristocrat, experienced in love and fed up with the attention of women, he was in every way the complete opposite of Emma, and it was their dissimilarity that made the young people become interested in each other, and then fall in love. However, Emma and Roy had to reconsider their positions in life in order to be together and find true happiness.