Romany Marii Voronovoy perenosyat chitatelya v nedalekoe proshloe, takoe slozhnoe i takoe rodnoe. Neprikayannye odinokie dushi ischut lyubov i nahodyat ee, nesmotrya na to chto za eto velikoe chuvstvo im prihoditsya borotsya. Dlya togo, chtoby obresti schastlivuyu semyu, nedostatochno byt knyazhnoy - v etom Eleonora Lvova uspela ubeditsya v stenah Smolnogo instituta. Esche nuzhno byt krasivoy i bogatoy, chem eta sereznaya i umnaya devushka pohvastatsya ne mozhet. A potomu, ne dozhidayas vypusknogo bala, ona brosaet Smolnyy i stanovitsya mediTsinskoy sestroy. Na ee schetu tysyachi spasennyh zhizney. No vot ustroit svoyu zhizn u Eleonory vozmozhnosti net - potomu chto ona bezotvetno vlyublena v doktora Voinova, kotoryy idet sluzhit v Krasnuyu Armiyu. A chto mozhet byt prestupnee v glazah devushki «iz blagorodnyh»?..