with love for one another resting within their inseparable hearts and a secret occupying their active yet silent souls seventeenyearold prince nicu ii and his sixteenyearold sister victoria first princess of exubertis must make a choice between their incestuous love affair and the maintaining of stability within their royal family prince nicu ii and princess victorias immutable romantic feelings for one another forces them to engage in extremely risky actions and fabricate various falsehoods throughout the play nicu ii and victoria deceive everyone including their parents king nicu i and queen isabella nicu ii is presumptuous in character therefore he maintains an excessive confidence within himself that he and his sisters romantic relationship can continue without being discovered but victoria fears that they cannot continue their affair emotionally unscathed despite victorias worries she continues with the relationship as nicu ii emboldens her more and more