Ancient Rus’. The 9th century. People said all sorts of things about the Smolensk princess Svetoráda: that she is beautiful and cunning, and that she loves to play tricks on suitors’ heads—yet her whims and caprices have no end. And still, it was precisely her that a young prince of Kyiv, Igor, proposed marriage to. Even though Oleg the Wise brought him another bride from Pskov—Olga. And Olga is ready for anything to separate Igor from Svetoráda. A young archer, Stемид, once nearly killed by Svetoráda, agreed to help her. But none of them knew what the beautiful princess herself had chosen.