“Isn’t life a long comedy, Fate is the director, and Passion is Inclination, Love, Hate, Ambition and Avarice, aren’t they alternately prompters?” The young aristocrat Aurora Floyd experiences disappointment, the bitterness of loss and the joy of mutual love. On the eve of the wedding, the man she loves will abandon her due to the fact that the girl's life is shrouded in mystery. But hope for happiness does not leave the heroine...