If she is sent, somewhat reluctantly, to visit her aging uncle viridinia is preparing to begin her life as a nun. She is supported by him. However, the two have met. Jaime believes Viridinia resembles his deceased wife. Virdinia finds her worst anxieties when Jaime climbs determined to seduce his niece demonstrated also has despised this man all her life. Viridinia becomes as her uncle upends the plans she had built to combine the convent undone.