The main heroine is a young girl, sold by her own father to an old but filthy rich man, although she was in love with a young boy from the village. The start of the First World War takes to the death of the main hero on the battlefield. Roxana, the main heroine, having no other oportunity, accepts the marriage proposal of the nobleman Dumitru. The night before the wedding, Roxana dreams of Razvan, who tells her that he is alive in heaven and that he loves her the same and he asks her not to get married, but that the choice is hers. In her wedding day Roxana throws herself into the lake, as she cannot be the woman of another man. Dumitru isolates himself in his mansion, away from the world, and his close ones decide to take him to the asylum.