A single summer can change the course of a lifetime. When Dmitri Sanin, a young Russian aristocrat, stops in a small German town on his journey home, he does not expect his future to be altered forever. There he meets the radiant Gemma Roselli, and what begins as a fleeting encounter soon deepens into a tender and sincere love. For a moment, happiness seems certain. But passion is rarely simple. When Sanin falls under the spell of the dazzling and dangerously seductive Maria Nikolaevna, he is dr ...