King Damian had a daughter, Elsa. When the king decided to marry Elsa, she set him the condition that she would choose a husband on her own terms. It seemed that nothing could interfere with Elsa’s serene happiness with the good King Jacob... but Jacob’s friend Stefan, obsessed with a dark passion for Elsa, intervenes in their lives. How will it all end? Who is the girl cook Elsa, the queen's namesake? What does the forest maiden have to do with it? This is a fairy tale about hope and betrayal, about tenderness and loneliness, about maternal love, about the love of a man for a woman, about pure love and destructive love, about love that can overcome conventions, insults and time.