Lottie often dreams of a woman in a white dress and holding lilies. The girl thinks that this is her mother, although Lottie does not have a single photograph of her mother and no memories, because her mother died when the girl was just a baby. One day in the newspaper, Lottie saw a photograph of a vaguely familiar woman who looked like herself - the same facial features, the same look... Lottie decided to find the woman from the photograph, but the matter is complicated by the fact that this is London at the beginning of the twentieth century, and Lottie is only twelve years old and she spent almost her entire life in a boarding school for noble maidens...