Krasavets Benedikt Karsington slavitsya svoey bezuprechnoy reputatsiey, vsegda sleduet pravilam vysshego sveta i uvazhaet traditsii. No ego zhizn perevorachivaetsya s nog na golovu, kogda on vstrechaet nezavisimuyu, vosstavshuyu protiv obscheprinyatyh norm Virsaviyu Uingeyt - devushku s yarkim harakterom, kotoraya stremitsya zhit nastoyaschey, polnoy zhiznyu vdali ot strogih pravil sveta.
Otpravlyayas v vynuzhdennoe sovmestnoe puteshestvie, takie raznye Benedikt i Virsaviya vnezapno obnaruzhivayut mezhdu soboy glubokuyu svyaz. A neprostye i poroy opasnye priklyucheniya pomogayut im preodolet sobstvennye strahi i predrassudki i ponyat, chto neobyazatelno byt idealnymi, chtoby stat po-nastoyaschemu schastlivymi...