Everything has always been hard for Anne Abbotsville, a long curly brown-haired woman in her twenties, following her mother's death. Added to the shock of the loss on the 9-year-old girl she was at the time, she had to face the indifference and neglect of her father. Without the support of her friend Jane, she would never have held firm to her dream to become an architect. But as her first year at the university comes to its end, she realises her father would not give her a penny to go any further. As she desperately looks for a financial support to pursue her studies, she finds on her way the British entrepreneur Donald Ryker...