Getting married is not at all difficult - it is difficult to be married. Gabriel Vern did not know this simple truth, otherwise he would never have married the girl his father had chosen for him. Family life did not work out from the very first day, and the young couple were married only in name for all three years. However, there would be no happiness, but misfortune helped: old Mr. Vern dies and, before divorcing, Gabriel and Joanna must fulfill the last will of the deceased, contained in a more than strange will...