1894 - Rosetta Heroski and her parents have left their home in Russia for a new life in England where Rosetta is to attend the prestigious boarding school for girls: St Victoria's. Unhappy with the new restrictions on her life she befriends four like-minded girls and with them meets four exotic travellers in the forest by the school. Rosetta finds herself mesmerised by the brooding Anrdeas and before long she enters a world of lies, secrets and scandal at St Victoria's.