Iz-za oshibki suda Kenna neskolko let ne videla svoyu malenkuyu doch. I vot ona vozvraschaetsya v gorod, nadeyas, chto smozhet naladit prezhnyuyu zhizn. No mosty sozhzheny, i nekogda blizkie lyudi otvernulis ot nee. Lish odin chelovek gotov dat Kenne vtoroy shans — vladelets mestnogo bara Ledzher Uord. Ih vlechet drug k drugu, no risk slishkom velik. Esli ob ih romane uznayut, davlenie obschestvennosti razrushit ne tolko ih zhizni, no i buduschee docheri Kenny. Mezhdu nimi stoit slozhnoe proshloe, chuvstvo skorbi i «napominaniya o nem» — cheloveke, kotoryy kogda-to byl slishkom vazhen i dlya Kenny, i dlya Ledzhera, i prizrak kotorogo, kazhetsya, ostanetsya s nimi navsegda.