Kateryna is beautiful, clever, and, by the will of her godmother, was raised as a lady of noble blood. But to the whole world, she is merely someone else's property, a bondmaid of the richest landowner in Nizhyn – Chervinskyi. Struggling for her freedom and the right to be happy, she will have to endure the deaths of her closest loved ones, become the property of a woman who hates her and dreams of killing her, survive a popular uprising, escape while being pursued by a maniac, and flee from the one who wants to possess her above all else. What awaits Kateryna at the end of such a terrible and exhausting journey to freedom?