The willful beauty Yulia Argamakova is obsessed with the desire to decide her own fate. In defiance of her parents, she runs away from home with the young Polish man Andrzej on the night of the bloody uprising that broke out in Warsaw in November 1830. Fate dealt Yulia its cards—whether she likes it or not, she is forced to follow the rules of this new, deadly game. Murder and separation, hatred and reckless abandon, dangerous intrigues, betrayal, a long road ahead… and passionate love, before which Yulia, with her stubbornness, refuses to bow!