n 1838, lovely governess Elisabeth agrees to bear a child of anonymous English landowner, and he will in return pay her fathers debt. At birth she, as agreed, gives up the child. Seven years later she is hired as governess to a girl on a remote Sussex estate. The father of the girl, Charles Godwin, turns out to be that anonymous landowner. So Elisabeth has to be her own daughters governess, and she cant reveal the secret of her tie with little Louisa.