Maria, who is in an unhappy marriage with her sadistic husband, unexpectedly receives news. Lowell, her husband's half-brother, had returned from the battlefield.

Maria, who had personally educated and raised him, learned that he was no longer the small child or immature boy Maria remembered. He had the appearance of a grown man.

With his appearance, a rift slowly began to appear in the seemingly peaceful Marquis Redford.

Where would this relationship, which should never have begun, end?