伊丽莎白(苏菲·玛索 Sophie Marceau 饰)和英国贵族查理(斯蒂芬·迪兰 Stephen Dillane 饰)之间有一个不可告人的交易——她给他三个晚上,为他生下孩子,然后安静地离开。查理给了伊丽莎白一笔钱用以还清她父亲的债务。 伊丽莎白按照约定,诞下女儿露易莎。但7年来她心火不灭——她记挂着女儿,每个女儿的生日,她都在画簿上写画心事。同时令她念念不忘的,还有当时与查理之间若有若无的感情。 她来到查理家,要当露易莎的家庭老师,查理惊恐要她赶出家门,最终只答应给她一个月教导调皮的女儿。露易莎慢慢被调教得有了修养,而伊丽莎白也与查理旧情复燃。 在已经变成植物人的妻子和伊丽莎白之间,查理将如何选择?In 1838, lovely governess Elisabeth agrees to bear a child of anonymous English landowner, and he will in return pay her father's debt. At birth she, as agreed, gives up the child. Seven years later she is hired as governess to a girl on a remote Sussex estate. The father of the girl, Charles Godwin, turns out to be that anonymous landowner. So Elisabeth has to be her own daughter's governess, and she can't reveal the secret of her tie with little Louisa.