In which the anxious preparations and delicate disguises of a hasty escape unfold beneath the watchful favour of a capricious goddess, allowing two very inexperienced fugitives to slip away under the cloak of dusk and chance. The journey aboard a modest train carriage exposes a princess to the curious intimacies of everyday life and the gentle yet pointed curiosities of strangers, leaving her to grapple with the quiet dignity and vexations of an altered existence.