Rozhdennaya v rabstve na kroshechnom karibskom ostrove Montserrat, Doroti Kirvan sumela vykupit' svobodu u svoego otca - irlandskogo plantatora, a potom dobilas' osvobozhdeniya sestry i materi. Cenoy neveroyatnyh usiliy ey udalos' stat' bogatoy i vliyatel'noy zhenshchinoy, vladelicey domov i zemel', ot saharnyh plantaciy Dominiki i Barbadosa do roskoshnogo otelya v Demerare na yuzhnoamerikanskom kontinente. Eto rasskaz o real'noy istoricheskoy figure - zhenshchine, sumevshey probit' sebe put' naverh v chudovishchnyh usloviyah rabstva i kolonializma, zhenshchine, ne boyavsheysya lyubit' i ne ostanavlivavsheysya ni pered chem radi lyubimyh.