Noble lady Cecilia finds her husband Raymond cheating with her cousin. She later uncovers that he poisoned her father and has been slowly poisoning her all along. She plots in secret, buys Marguerite, falsely accused of witchcraft, from the slave market, forges her as an eastern noble, and sets a gold mine trap. In the end, Cecilia teams up with Marguerite and the repentant Isabella. They expose all his schemes in open court. Raymond is ruined and exiled to hard labor, and the three betrayed women take back their lives.