Shestnadtsatyj vek. Shotlandiya. Prekrasnaya yunaya Katriona esche rebenkom obruchena s kuzenom, grafom Patrikom Glenkerkom. No za tri dnya do svad"by ona ubegaet ot zhenikha: gordaya i nezavisimaya, goryacho lyubyaschaya buduschego muzha, ona zhelaet, chtoby v nej videli cheloveka. Venchanie proiskhodit, kogda ikh pervenets dolzhen vot-vot poyavit"sya na svet... Kak dal"she slozhitsya ikh zhizn"? Sumeyut li oni sokhranit" svoyu lyubov"?