After getting into a car accident, the main character of the novel loses his memory for some time. He forgot not only that before the accident he was engaged and was going to get married, but even his name. The bride, passionately in love with him, insists on registering the marriage right in the hospital where he is staying after the misfortune that happened to him. The marriage takes place, and the young people begin their honeymoon, or rather the appearance of it. But there is a person who arranged all this. A person who has good reasons for making a man a dead man and a woman a widow...