A young man tells the following tale: after at last meeting a local girl with whom he's secretly been in love, she's disappeared. Finding himself with time on his hands, he spends his days searching for her. A young and pretty assistant in a bakery seems to be attracted to him. To deflect boredom, he decides to seduce her. Just when she is about to give into his charms; the first woman turns up again, her ankle wrapped in a bandage.