Young Кассандра Мортмейн, deciding to sharpen literary mastery, begins to conduct a diary. She writes about the family - cleverly, ironically, touching, sometimes naively. Her family is a woman-sister, reasoning brother-schoolboy, eccentric stepmother and father, famous writer, author only one novel, - lives in the tumbledown English lock leased, and makes both end meet hardly. Smells of herbares, mysterious light stars, romantic of classic English landscape. Arrival of two young Americans, heirs of nearby estate, destroys the usual mode. Mainly - the first love comes.