The young princess Velya—the younger daughter of Prince Veleslav—never expected that, long ago, she had been betrothed off thoughtlessly to distant lands, into a cursed family. And now she will have to leave to meet an unknown fate—through deep forests, into a foreign place, to the city of Karyar—in order to become the wife of one of four prince’s sons. All of them seem good, but no better than the stranger she has already given her heart to on that dark summer-night at Kupala… And is it true that real love is stronger than any hardship?