More than anything else, Lizzie Paxton dreamed... of being a widow. The widow is independent, free and relies only on herself - in a word, she leads an ideal life, in Lizzie’s opinion. It’s just a pity that before you become a widow, you still have to get married! The answer to Lizzie’s answered prayers was the proposal of her childhood friend, Captain James Marlow, to enter into a fictitious marriage with him: for personal reasons, he needs a woman who would bear his name, but as a wife I wasn't. Lizzie agrees. She naively believes James, not even suspecting that he, burning with passion, lures her into the web of temptation and seduction...