Talented actress Lily Stump, embroiled in a desperate venture to restore a small theater in the center of an abandoned pleasure garden, is forced to live almost in the ruins of this theater with her little adopted son and a devoted maid. The brave kid makes friends with a gloomy, mute gardener nicknamed The Beast, and then Lily herself, little by little begins to trust this mysterious man, to whom for some reason she is increasingly drawn more and more. The girl does not know that under the mask of the Beast is hiding the royal soldier Apollo Graves, Viscount Kilburn, who was unfairly declared a dangerous crazy killer...