After losing her mother first and then her father, who died of a serious illness, Anzella Winton was left alone, with no means of living. The choice for the girl isn’t great: either go to stay with her stern, unmarried aunts—women who everywhere and in everything are convinced they see vice—or try to arrange her own life independently… And she accepts an offer to go to the south of France and become the companion and caretaker of Princess Feodora Vsevolodskaya.