England, 1940. Flora Lewis receives an enticing offer from a mysterious “flower thief.” She must go to England to find, in the garden of an old estate, a rare variety of camellia. Flora is forced to take a position in Lord Livingston’s house as a nanny. And soon she finds in the room of the lady who died under unclear circumstances an herbarium album with strange notes…
New York, our days. Rex Sinclair asks his wife Addison to leave for a while to the suburbs of London. He wants to write a book, and Addison finds material for the future novel: the story of a beautiful camellia that once grew in the garden of the very queen herself…