Rowan is a young orphan, who during her flight to Switzerland to start a new life coincides with the arrival of Ashley Moore, fresh from the success of a brilliant new musical show in London. Ashley is working on another musical in a chalet near the hotel where Rowan is working, and their paths seem to be constantly crossing - and meeting. They shared in the breathless excitement of skiing in the Swiss Alps - but it is not until Fran Cottar, the beautiful wife of Ashley's best friend, arrives on the scene and Rowan finds her in Ashley's arms that Rowan realises that for the first time in her life she is in love, passionately - and hopelessly. But for her alone was the anguish of a heartbreaking love that was not returned, whose unlocks the secret of her past....