People overwhelmed by grief and darkness. The struggle for power and victory. The girl who can lose everything and nothing...

Sadness rules the Court of Tears in a country grieving over her brother, who died a couple of days before Sorrow was born. During the day she rules in place of her father, at night she seeks secret consolation in the arms of the young man whom she has loved since childhood. But when her brother is allegedly found alive and wants to seize power, Sorrow must decide whether to give up her seat to a stranger who may not be who he says he is, or fight for a position she never wanted.