Marga upsets her parents with another dalliance, and they take her away to Italy. Rudi Retberg promises to meet them there to show Marga around. However, a touch of consumption forces him to spend the summer in the mountains, disappointing Marga yet again. A beautiful girl on her own, Marga is attracting unwanted attention from local men, so her parents take her home. They decide that she is to spend the summer with her uncle on his country estate, Lesmona.
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