Principe Claudio Scorsolini's future wife must make a suitable figurehead for his people and provide him with an heir. Claudio's convenient union with Therese is hailed a success: his subjects have fallen in love with her and she's performed her duties in the bedroom—to Claudio's immense satisfaction.

However, Therese has secretly fallen in love with her husband. How can their marriage survive when she knows she can never give Claudio a child?