Twenty-year-old Chloe enters a secret marriage with Alistair, a 15-years-older Wall Street tycoon, signing a harsh prenup and becoming a caged bird in the top echelon. After she becomes pregnant, Alistair's first love causes a fatal hit-and-run. To cover for her, Alistair frames Chloe for the crime. During a confrontation, she falls, suffers a hemorrhage, and loses the baby. On bail, she finds the first love moved into their apartment. In desperation, she holds the woman at knifepoint, forcing Alistair to choose—but he hurts Chloe again. She burns the oppressive marriage contract and flees the U.S. overnight. Three years later, Chloe rises as a top cellist in the European classical music scene. Alistair, realizing he destroyed his own child, sends his first love to federal prison and abandons his billion-dollar empire to search for Chloe. When he kneels and begs for forgiveness, Chloe doesn't even look at him, walking instead onto the stage of the Vienna Musikverein. In the end, Alistair lets go and dies alone on a hospital bed.