Lovely Venice dreams of love, because she is young, beautiful... and lonely. One day, her cousin comes to her, whom her parents want to marry to her unloved Count Mountwood. The poor girl's heart was given to someone else. Venice is ready to sacrifice herself for her sister - and under a thick veil the groom discovers not the one he expected to see! But it’s too late - the ship is already taking the newlyweds to distant India... The Count is furious! Only the beautiful stranger who became his wife will soon make him tremble with passion...