A child of love, the young beauty Melisanda in the dreary walls of a monastery imagined herself dressed in lace and velvet. Sir Charles Trevenning offers the fifteen-year-old orphan to leave the monastery and become a companion to his daughter, whose wedding has been postponed due to her mother’s death. The girl agrees, not knowing that her caring guardian is her father. The future seems bright and joyful to her—but ahead lie difficult trials. Her attempt to break free from the closed circle leads her to prison…