Otnosheniya Tess i Hardina daleki ot idillii. Beshenaya strast', neodolimoe vlechenie prityagivayut ih drug k drugu i v to zhe vremya meshayut hladnokrovno reshat' problemy, kotorye neizbezhno voznikayut u vsekh lyudey bez isklyucheniya: slozhnosti v otnosheniyah s roditelyami i druz'yami, neobhodimost' stroit' kar'eru, nakonec, raznye vzglyady na brak.
Tess i Hardin molody, im tol'ko predstoit ponyat', chto vdvoem perezhit' mnogie potryaseniya gorazdo proshche, tem bolee chto Hardina zhdet ochen' nepriyatnoe otkrytie, kotoroe, vozmozhno, perevernet ego zhizn'