After Paula's suicide, her best friend, Ana, recalls the circumstances that united both women in the past and how they lived a close relationship that could have become more than just a friendship if social conventions had not prevented it.
Gábor, an ex-lord-lieutenant, now a widower lives a secluded life in his mansion. The commander in the house is Aunt Lili, a relative, whose main concern is to marry off the elder girl, the beautiful Mara
