The film is based on a novel by the famous writer John Fowles. This story takes place in the 19th-century England. Charles Smithson, a rich and young biologist, is engaged to a girl. Sarah Woodruff is a fallen woman, spurned by everyone. People from the high society and a woman cast out of it. What can bring these people together? Just suddenly erupted passion. But Sarah leaves Charles. Simultaneously, another story develops. Anna and Mike, the young actors playing Sarah and Charles, get used to their roles so much that they do not notice how the characters begin to change their own destiny.