Lucy Snow is a young orphan who has neither money nor family. However, she has an excellent education, a strong character and a sufficiently adventurous mindset to go alone to the continent and find a profitable position as an English teacher in a respectable boarding school for young girls. It is there, among hard everyday work and petty female intrigues, that fate brings her with two very different men - the Englishman John and the Belgian Paul. The first seems a true example of calm British charm, the second is dark, harsh and uneven. The first evokes warm sympathy in Lucy, the second - a whole storm of conflicting feelings. But whether one of them will become her love and destiny - Lucy doesn’t know yet...