England in the late eighteenth century. Sisters Rosa and Susan Vartigan invent a special reality—a closed world, inaccessible to everyone else. In it, people around them are only puppets, and intrigue becomes the main lever of influence. But one day the familiar order collapses, and between them comes a breaking point. What caused it—pride of their own, the arrival of a charming man, or the intervention of fate? Whatever it was, their story continues to unfold even when the «dolls» begin to cut the strings of those who are used to controlling them.