By chance, Lord Francis Douglas, an aristocrat with a ruined reputation, and Lady Sephora Connaught, who is called the “angel of high society,” meet. She is someone else's bride, he is an outcast, doomed to loneliness. But these two cannot forget each other. The ensuing meetings transform their lives, helping them discover the best qualities in themselves. What is this if not love? And yet, the marriage of Francis and Sephora, concluded at the insistence of her parents, is, in fact, forced.