A young companion of a capricious elderly American woman becomes the wife of the imposing English aristocrat Maximilian de Winter, tormented by secret sadness, and arrives with him at his ancestral estate Manderley. In a huge gloomy mansion, both people and walls, and it seems that the air itself reminds the new hostess of her deceased predecessor - the beautiful and sophisticated Rebecca de Winter. The strange behavior of the spouse, the alertness and sometimes hostility of the servants, the general omissions, clearly designed to hide the secret of the death of Maximilian's first wife, plunge the heroine into three pet. After months of painful experiences, she will learn the carefully hidden truth about the past inhabitants of Manderley. Rebekah (1938) , made world famous by the name of the English writer Daphne Dumorier, Almost immediately after the release was filmed by Alfred Hitchcock ,. Decades later, , Having gained the status of classics of the twentieth century and having received flattering comparisons with Charlotte Bront's Jane Air. There have been a number of sequels and additions to ,. including Mrs. De Winter by Susan Hill , The Other Rebecca by Maureen Freely , Rebecca's Story by Sally Beaumont .