Giulia (Julia Katarina Muravyov) is a nobler of Russian origin, born in 1826 in Turin, where her mother has taken refuge after her husband was sentenced to death for having participated in the Decembrist revolution last year. In 1855, during the Crimean War, Julia falls in love for a medical officer of the Piedmontese army of Hungarian origin, the Count Theodore Von Berg, she becomes pregnant and she marries him, but, after a few years, their marriage is already in crisis and so, when, in 1859, during the War of Independence, Julia, who is at the front as a volunteer nurse, knows the correspondent of "The Times" Ferdinand Eber, who was also of Hungarian origin, she realizes that she feels something for him... in the midst of the struggle for Italian independence between battles, escapes and unexpected facts, Julia and Ferdinand will be able to trust each other and to live fully their love story?