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The time is the 1930s and Caterina (Anna Melato) is a rather plain woman living in a small village with very little prospects for ever finding a husband -- she is already 30 and still single. Her parents worry about her future, and with the best of intentions the father decides to "buy" her a husband, a rather loutish, egocentric male with his eyes focused on the nubile maid of the household rather than the shy Caterina. Although Caterina begins to like her prospective mate, her father does not hold many illusions about the man's roving eye -- and when he finds the man in quite a compromising position with the maid, Caterina's chances for early matrimony are more or less booted out the door.