Dr. Anger loses his wife in a fire but saves the lives of his daughter Adelia and Stepania, the housekeeper’s daughter. Twenty-five years later and the two young women are inseparable. They are still in the dark regarding what truly transpired and are even less in the clear about who they are to each other: Sisters? Friends? Or perhaps maid and mistress? In a whirlwind of love and jealousy, dual meanings and mysteries, little by little the border between reality and imagination evaporates. A spectacular historical drama about love and addiction, fantasies, illusions, and an eluded reality.