The early 20th century. The life of sixteen-year-old Rosalind Clifford is arranged: she’s the best student in a prestigious school, her father is the mayor of the city, she has many friends. Even difficulties with getting into university don’t scare her: knowing what she wants, she boldly goes toward her goal. But everything changes with a dream in which Rosalind sees her dead mother. The secret of her mother’s death reveals a terrible truth to Rosalind: slavery still exists in the country—the kind her parents once fought against. With her loyal bodyguard John, she must travel far to Hampshire to meet her fate face to face. And before this meeting, she has to load her revolver!